An unspeakable drama.
Wednesday evening, in Montpellier, a man stabbed several times in the face of his wife in front of the couple's children, we learned from police sources on Thursday.
Police officers from the Hérault departmental public security directorate intervened around 8 p.m., after a call to 17, at the couple's home located in the working-class district of Petit Bard, in the north of the Languedoc metropolis, according to the same sources.
The victim, 37, suffered serious eye injuries.
She was hospitalized but was out of danger on Thursday.
The four chartered children
The man, aged 56, was still on the run this Thursday evening and actively wanted while four children of the couple, aged according to the Free Midi of 13, 11, 6 and 4 years old, present at the time of the facts and very shocked, were taken care of by a psychological cell, said the same sources.
In 2019, 146 women were killed in France by their spouse or ex-partner, 25 more than the previous year, according to official figures.
