The 43-year-old man was taken into custody, said sources, confirming information from Point.
“He appeared bloody in front of the officials and said he killed his mother with a knife,” a source close to the case told AFP.
At the end of the afternoon, a woman, aged 68 and “likely to be the mother of the respondent” was found dead at her home in Ecorpain, in the Sarthe, added these sources.
According to the first elements, she died “in violent circumstances”. The gendarmes of the Le Mans search brigade were in charge of the investigation.
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