A 43-year-old woman died on the night of Wednesday June 26 to Thursday June 27 after falling from the eighth floor of a building in Bouscat (Gironde), near Bordeaux. A man in his thirties who was in the victim’s apartment at the time of the incident was taken into police custody. The investigation into intentional homicide continues.
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A 43-year-old woman died at the end of June 2024 near Bordeaux after falling from the eighth floor of the building in which she lived. Illustrative photo. | JOËL LE GALL / WEST-FRANCE ARCHIVES
A 43-year-old woman died after falling from the eighth floor of a building in Bouscat (Gironde), near Bordeaux, on the night of Wednesday 26 to Thursday 27 June 2024. The victim died instantly, reports France 3 New Aquitaine .
The fall happened around 3am. Firefighters arrived on the scene but could only confirm the death of the forty-year-old. An investigation has been opened and entrusted to the police of the Bordeaux territorial crime division, according to South West .
An investigation into voluntary homicide
A 34-year-old man who was in the victim’s apartment at the time of the incident was arrested and taken into police custody. However, his arrest was made “as part of a research sheet” and not for this case. He was in fact wanted for acts of rape of a minor in Charente-Maritime, specifies South West.
The man was in an advanced state of intoxication, according to information from France 3. At this stage of the investigation, no leads have been ruled out, said the deputy public prosecutor of Bordeaux. The judicial investigation opened for these facts was however reclassified as voluntary homicide on Thursday, said France Blue Gironde .
