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The 50-year-old woman, who fatally injured her partner with a knife on Saturday December 28 in Pujols, was indicted on Monday December 31 for intentional homicide by a spouse and imprisoned.
Saturday December 28, Gilles Marcuzo, a 58-year-old man, was fatally injured with a knife by his partner at their home in Pujols. His partner, a 50-year-old woman, was then taken into police custody.
At the end of the period of deprivation of liberty, which had been extended by 24 hours on Sunday December 30, the accused was referred to the Agen judicial court on Monday December 31 late in the afternoon. An investigating judge was contacted and the investigating magistrate proceeded to question him.
Prosecuted for aggravated murder
The fifty-year-old was then indicted “for having voluntarily caused death” to her companion, “with the circumstance that the acts were committed by the victim's spouse or common-law partner”, reports the Agen prosecutor's office in a press release. . She is therefore being prosecuted for aggravated intentional homicide.
“Similarly, and in accordance with the requisitions to this effect from the magistrate of the Agen public prosecutor's office who supported this position before the judge of freedoms and detention, the indictment was placed in pre-trial detention,” adds the prosecutor of the Republic of Agen Olivier Naboulet.
