A 31-year-old woman was killed by stabbing at his home in Noisy-le-Secin Seine-Saint-Denisand her husband, 41, was arrested, learned of theAFP Saturday July 16, 2022 with the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office and a police source.
The suspect was placed in police custody for “voluntary homicide by spouse”, specified Éric Mathais, the public prosecutor of Bobigny.
Le feminicide took place on the night of Friday 15 to Saturday 16 July. Alerted by the couple’s neighbors, the police intervened around 1:30 a.m. and first spotted traces of blood around the residential residence, according to a police source.
200,000 women victims of violence each year
They then forced the door of the home and discovered the young woman “wounded by bladed weapon” but still alive, traced Éric Mathais. Despite the intervention of the emergency services, she died on the spot.
His companion was arrested shortly after, a few hundred meters from the scene. He had a wound on his thigh.
At this stage of the investigations, no complaint or procedure for domestic violence has been found concerning this couple, the prosecution said.
According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior, 146 women were victims of femicides in 2019 and 102 in 2020. The feminist collective against sexist and sexual violence #NousToutes counted 113 femicides in 2021.
In total, in France, more than 200,000 women are victims of violence each year, according to the ministry.
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