The bodies of a woman and her ex-boyfriend were discovered in the latter's apartment early in the afternoon in Toulouse, the prosecutor's office said.AFPthis Monday, December 2, 2024.
The young woman, 23, and her ex-partner, 31, both died of a “violent death”specified the deputy prosecutor, Frédéric Cousin.
The privileged femicide hypothesis
An investigation into spousal murder was opened because “the marital bond is established”but “gray areas” that the autopsy will have to reveal do not currently make it possible to qualify with certainty this tragedy as femicide, the prosecutor also explained. This is at this stage the hypothesis favored by investigators, according to a police source.
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Neither of the two deceased people, separated for several months, was known to the courts, said the prosecutor.
In 2023, 96 women were victims of marital femicide in France, according to the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior published on November 25, the international day against violence against women.
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