A 20-year-old man suspected of having shot and killed his partner on Tuesday evening in Lempdes (Puy-de-Dôme) was arrested and placed in police custody, we learned on Wednesday from the Clermont-Ferrand prosecutor's office.
The facts occurred shortly before 10:00 p.m. in an apartment in this small town in the Clermont area.
The victim was also 20 years old.
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Witnesses called the police after seeing the young man come out of the apartment building, a shotgun in his hand
,” the prosecution told AFP.
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The man was arrested, but two other men he was with fled, according to the same source.
The suspect told law enforcement where he left his gun.
The circumstances of this alleged feminicide have not been specified.
The couple was unknown to the police and gendarmerie services for domestic violence, according to the same source.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the departmental security of Clermont-Ferrand of the counts of homicide by spouse.
In 2021, 122 women were killed in France under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior.