A 56 -year -old woman had been discovered dead at home by her son. Her 59 -year -old husband, with whom she has been in the process of divorce since 2023, had been found on the scene and arrested by the gendarmes.
The husband in the process of divorce of a woman strangled at her home on Friday, in Isère, admitted to having killed her and was indicted for murder by spouse and imprisoned, the prosecution announced on April 4.
This 56-year-old woman had been discovered dead at home by her son in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, a small Bourg Isérois bordering on Savoy, and the 59-year-old husband, 59 years old, “With which she had been in the process of divorce since 2023”had been “Found on the scene” And arrested by the gendarmes, explained the deputy public prosecutor of Grenoble François Touret de Coucy, in a message to the press.
-“The only author of the facts”
During his police custody, “The suspect admitted to being the only author of the facts” and was indicted by an investigating judge of the chief “Murder by a person being spouse of the victim and then placed in pre -trial detention”writes the magistrate.
The spouses lived separately and “No complaints for violence within the couple had been reported before these facts. The couple was so far unknown to the police or gendarmerie services and was not the subject of any particular follow -up ”said Mr. Touret de Coucy.
In 2023, 96 women were victims of marital murder in France, according to the latest assessment published by the Ministry of the Interior.
