The suspect is this Thursday evening in custody at the Angers police station.
His companion, a young woman aged 27, was found dead by strangulation in the morning, in the apartment occupied by the couple in Angers (Maine-et-Loire), learned from a source close to the investigation.
According to the first elements, the victim would have been strangled by her spouse, a supermarket employee, who was arrested.
The couple's two children, aged 4 and 8, were in the apartment at the time of the tragedy.
The Courrier de l'Ouest reports that they were evacuated by the emergency services to the pediatric emergencies of the University Hospital of Angers.
A murder investigation
The daily, which was able to speak with neighbors of the couple, reports that this man, aged about 35, was perceived as sympathetic and had "never been talked about".
It is not yet known whether he expressed himself on the course of the events and on his responsibility or not in the death of his companion.
The man will, at the end of his police custody, be presented to justice for an examination for murder, also indicates the newspaper, which specifies that the investigation, opened by the prosecution for "homicide", has been entrusted to the police officers of the Departmental Security of Maine-et-Loire.
This case brings to at least 61 the number of suspected feminicides since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP count.
In 2019, 146 women were killed by their spouse or ex-partner, 25 more than the previous year, according to the latest official figures.
