A man suspected of having murdered his ex-wife with several stab wounds in the lobby of his building in Paris was indicted on Wednesday March 22 and imprisoned, AFP learned from a judicial source.
This man “
was presented today to an investigating magistrate.
He was indicted on the charge of assassination and placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the
Paris prosecutor's office, indicated the judicial source.
He had been arrested shortly before 9 a.m. Monday in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.
According to the first elements of the investigation, he carried at least “
two stab wounds
” at the level of the throat, in the “
hall of building of his dwelling
”, had detailed Monday to AFP a police source.
"
The victim died of his injuries despite the intervention of the firefighters
," said the Paris prosecutor's office on Monday.
“
Workers present in the building, where the facts took place, pursued a man likely to be the author of the facts
”, had added the parquet floor.
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Couple separated for a few years
This couple had been separated for a few years, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The woman, born in 1975, was normalien, agrégé and teacher in comparative literature at the Gustave Eiffel University of Marne-la-Vallée (Seine-et-Marne).
On her LinkedIn page, she presented herself as "
working on myths and their rewriting as well as on women's writing in the English and French languages
".
According to a tweet from her colleague Mathilde Larrere, she was "
equality sentinel at college
", "
adorable and very loved
", which was confirmed by several people who knew her on the social network.
On her Facebook page, she posted a lot of content with a political dimension.
One of his last publicly accessible publications dated back to 2020 and discussed domestic violence during confinement linked to the Covid-19 epidemic.
Contacted by AFP on Wednesday, Gustave Eiffel University indicated that it had not planned to communicate.
Also normalien, the imprisoned man is an entrepreneur specializing in artificial intelligence, author of several books in the 2000s devoted to the Internet and Internet users.
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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, according to the latest figures available from the Ministry of the Interior.
