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A woman killed in Gironde by her ex-husband found hanged

2023-03-03T16:47:22.941Z


The Libourne prosecutor's office confirmed on Friday the death of a woman in her fifties, stabbed with a knife.


A woman in her fifties was stabbed to death by her ex-spouse who was then found dead hanged near Bordeaux, we learned this Friday from the Libourne prosecutor's office (Gironde), confirming information from the daily Sud-Ouest.

The victim, born in 1968, was stabbed with a knife in Saint-Laurent-d'Arce, about thirty kilometers north of Bordeaux.

Found in a locked garage

Her former spouse, a time wanted by the gendarmes, "

killed himself by hanging

" and was found in a locked garage, a spokesman for the prosecution told AFP.

Investigators were forced to force open the garage door with a crowbar to gain access.

Resident of Montendre (Charente-Maritime), about thirty kilometers from Saint-Laurent d'Arce, the man was 62 years old.

The number of feminicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, against 102 in 2020, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior .

Source: lefigaro

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