The 52-year-old man suspected of killing his 48-year-old ex-girlfriend Thursday by breaking into her home in Bethune was indicted Saturday for aggravated murder and imprisoned. A judicial investigation was opened for "murder by a person who was the spouse or partner of the victim" and the suspect was indicted and placed in provisional detention, said in a statement the deputy prosecutor of Bethune, Guillaume Dupont.
In custody, the man admitted "to have entered the home of the victim during the night through an unlocked door and to have stabbed him several times," had detailed Friday the prosecutor's office.
Not known to police services
The victim had filed a complaint against him on 21 February for death threats. This complaint was "ongoing". The fifty-year-old was not known to the police and "has no criminal record relating to acts of violence by spouse," according to the prosecutor's office.
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Emergency services had intervened Thursday at 5:30 am in the apartment of the victim after the call of a neighbor. The victim, who died on the spot, "showed traces of beatings, probably carried with a knife," he said. The respondent was arrested a few minutes later, at 5:45 a.m. "at the wheel of his car while returning home".
The number of femicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed by their spouse or ex-spouse, according to the latest available figures from the Ministry of the Interior.
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