The body of the victim was found near his home, close to Saumur. The suspect, arrested Saturday morning, is a soldier of another regiment.
Le Monde with AFP
A military from Fontevraud Camp (Maine-et-Loire), aged 28, was killed by several knife and the alleged author, also military, was arrested in the middle of the day. “The track of a feminicide is privileged,” said Alexandra Verron, the Attorney of the Republic of Saumur, Saturday, January 1, at the France-Press agency (AFP).
The body of the young woman, who had multiple knife wounds, was found Saturday, early in the morning, in Bellevigne-les-Castles, near Saumur, in the public areas of a small building. The alleged perpetrator is “also a soldier, but he was not in the same regiment as the victim,” said the prosecutor, adding that the first hearings had not yet taken place.
An investigation for murder by Concubin in Meurthe-et-Moselle
In Meurthe and Moselle, a 56-year-old woman was also found dead, Saturday morning, in Labry village. His spouse was placed in custody after attempting to put an end to his life. They are neighbors who gave the alert after hearing from the suspect’s home argument, depending on the parquet of Val-de-Briey. An investigation was opened for “murder by concubine”, the nearest qualification of the definition of femicide, which does not exist as such in the Penal Code.
According to a balance sheet of the Ministry of the Interior, 102 men killed their spouse or former joint in 2020. They were 146 in 2019. The feminist collective against sexist and sexual violence #noustoutes counted 113 femicides in 2021 and now two in 2022. “Emmanuel Macron, two feminicides in twelve-hour, wrote the collective on Twitter by publishing this first assessment of the year. Restart this count is unbearable, act. “