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The alleged author of the Châteaudun feminicide has been indicted for aggravated murder and placed in detention

The alleged perpetrator of the feminicide, Wednesday evening, in Chateaudun, was indicted on the count of aggravated murder and placed in pre-trial detention. According to the Chartres prosecutor’s office, the man, unknown to the courts, admitted the facts while in police custody.

He had been arrested at his home, rue de la Varenne in Châteaudun, where the gendarmes, alerted by a neighbor on Wednesday evening, found a woman dead. “She had her throat slit,” said Rémi Coutin, the public prosecutor.

A pensioner suspected of having fatally stabbed his wife in Châteaudun

According to the first elements of the investigation, described by Rémi Coutin, “the husband would have gone into the kitchen to seize a meat knife. He allegedly stabbed her in the carotid artery while she was sitting on the couch. The murder weapon has been found.” “The pathologist found half a dozen blade marks. »

The autopsy of the victim’s body was carried out on Friday August 5. This is the fifth femicide in Eure-et-Loir since 2015.

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