a 51-year-old woman killed in Hautmont

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Jan 2, 2025 at 4:33 p.m.

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A woman died in Hautmont (North) and her partner, who called for help on the night of December 31 to January 1, 2025, explaining “having done something stupid”was placed in police custody, we learned from a police source. It was between 3 and 4 a.m. At his home, the police discovered his wife unresponsive, body covered in bruisesshe reported. The victim died from his injuries. This is the first feminicide of the year.

Femicide in Hautmont: the companion says he acted following an argument against the backdrop of adultery

The victim's companion, present at the scene, declared that he had acted following an argument against the backdrop of adultery, according to the police source. He was taken into custody. The prosecutor of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Laurent Dumaine, explained in the afternoon that his prosecutor's office had withdrawn from the investigation in favor of the Valenciennes prosecutor's office “because of the criminal jurisdiction of this jurisdiction”.

“Her name was Isabelle. She was 51 years old and the mother of two children. She was killed this morning by her partner,” wrote the Minister for Gender Equality Aurore Bergé on X. “This is the first feminicide of 2025, already one too many. The government's determination is total to stem this scourge. And all means will be mobilized,” she adds in this message, specifying that she will go there “in the very next few days”.

The mayor of Hautmont, for his part, deplored in a message on Facebook a tragedy which “reminds us of the urgency of fighting all forms of violence, in particular intra-family and marital violence”. “Our territory is unfortunately experiencing an increase in this violence,” writes the elected official.

In 2023, 96 women were victims of marital femicide in France, a figure down 19% compared to 2022, according to the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior published at the end of November.