His remains were found 72 hours after his disappearance was reported.
An investigation was opened for “murder by spouse” after the discovery of a charred body last Sunday in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (Rhône), AFP said this Thursday, confirming information from Progrès and BFM.
On Sunday, shortly before 4 p.m., the lifeless body of a 43-year-old woman was found in the basement of an unoccupied two-story house.
A house that has been empty for several years, which is the subject of a recent building permit for an extension and a swimming pool, in the heart of the Beaunant residential district, in this neighboring town to the west of Lyon.
Bound hand and foot
Initial findings established that the victim, aged around forty, had his hands and feet tied.
The disappearance of this woman was reported on Thursday February 8 and she was quickly identified by the gendarmes of the Lyon research section and the Givors research brigade, to whom the Lyon prosecutor's office entrusted the investigations.
Initially, an investigation was opened for “intentional homicide”.
She had contacted her ex-partner to warn him that her current partner was in front of her workplace with several friends.
If she was afraid, it was because the man had already been violent with her and had made death threats to her on several occasions, indicates France Bleu.
After this call, the woman gave no further sign of life and her phone remained switched off.
The investigation was "entrusted to an investigating judge" from the Lyon public prosecutor's office, the latter told AFP, adding that he did not intend to "communicate further" in the "strict interest" of the investigations carried out. .