Former police officer Arnaud Bonnefoy, accused of having fatally strangled his partner Amanda Glain in January 2022 in Paris before fleeing, will be tried at the assizes for homicide by spouse, indicated, Tuesday, October 15, the Paris prosecutor’s office, requested by AFP.
The public prosecutor confirmed that “the investigating judge issued an indictment order for Arnaud Bonnefoy on September 10, which was not appealed.”
On January 28, 2022, Arnaud Bonnefoy, 29, then a police officer in Blanc-Mesnil, did not go to work. He had informed his police station and, given his “suicidal desires”, officers had been sent to his home. It was there that they “discovered the lifeless body of his partner” the prosecution explained in its requisitions this summer. Amanda Glain, 28, was lying in the bathroom, strangled to death.
Three weeks on the run
Arnaud Bonnefoy fled, leading to extensive searches and a call for witnesses which led to the discovery of his service weapon and two magazines in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in Amiens. After three years on the run, the man called the police and explained that he was at his father’s house in the Var. He was arrested immediately.
The former police officer, still in pre-trial detention, had a history of domestic violence according to sources close to the case. He will appear before an assize court for “homicide by spouse”. He faces life imprisonment.
With AFP
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