“Suspicious traces” were discovered on his wife’s body.
A Belgian national on vacation in Fréjus in the Var was arrested and taken into police custody after his wife was found dead, we learned on Tuesday from the Draguignan public prosecutor's office.
“A woman of Belgian nationality was found dead in the apartment rented for vacation, in the presence of her husband who was placed in police custody due to suspicious traces found on the victim’s body,” said specified the prosecution.
An argument in the evening
According to a police source, it was the emergency services who alerted the police on Tuesday around 5:30 a.m. by intervening in this death, due to marks on the wrists and neck of the deceased as well as traces of blood on a duvet and sheets. .
The first investigations also made it possible to establish that an argument had taken place on Monday evening, again according to this source.
At least six femicides have already occurred in the Var department since the start of the year.
The last one took place in mid-February in Fréjus when a 29-year-old woman died from her injuries after being hit by her companion.
On average, a feminicide occurs every three days in France.
The Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti recently put forward the figure of 94 femicides in 2023, compared to 118 in 2022, a downward count viewed with skepticism by feminist associations.