60-year-old woman stabbed to death in her home, suspect arrested

A 60-year-old woman was stabbed to death at her home in Pujaut (Gard) this Thursday evening. The gendarmes arrested a 21-year-old suspect who could be his son, and who was taken into police custody, indicates France 3confirming information aboutObjective Gard. A murder investigation has been opened.

The alert was given at the beginning of the evening, when the sixty-year-old no longer gave any sign of life to her neighbors. The police and firefighters went to the victim's home. In the home, emergency services discovered the woman's lifeless body. According to initial findings, she was hit several times with a knife. An autopsy will be performed.

Investigators and criminal identification technicians carried out observations throughout the night in the house.

The investigations were entrusted to the research brigade of the Bagnols-sur-Cèze gendarmerie company.