A murder investigation was opened by the Bourg-en-Bresse prosecutor's office after the discovery of the lifeless body of a woman on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday at the edge of a wood near a small village in the 'Ain, according to the prosecution.
The 52-year-old victim left his home in Salavre on Tuesday afternoon to go for a walk.
She was found dead in the night a few kilometers away, near a forest, by relatives worried not to see her return and who had started looking for her.
Criminal thesis
The body of the fifty-year-old, discovered with a swollen face, "showed signs of violent blows, carried on the skull and thorax, as well as a stab wound validating the criminal thesis," Christophe Rode told AFP, the public prosecutor of Bourg-en-Bresse, confirming information from the regional daily Le Progrès.
"Is he a prowler or has she been followed?"
For the time being, there is no indication allowing us to favor one track over another "he added, specifying that his car was parked near the" isolated but accessible "place where it was found and that" a priori, no sexual violence was committed ”.
The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmes of the Lyon research section and the Bourg-en-Bresse research brigade.
