A 38-year-old man killed his ex-spouse on the night of Friday to Saturday in Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets (Ille-et-Vilaine) and then fled before being shot by a gendarme in Côtes-d’Armor, the Saint-Malo prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday.
On the night of Friday to Saturday, “the Saint-Malo gendarmerie company was required shortly after midnight to intervene in the town of Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets for a 36-year-old woman, assaulted in the street at the level of the neck with the help of a stabbing weapon,” said the Breton city’s prosecution in a press release sent on Saturday evening.
The gendarmes “noted the death of this woman and the flight of the author, identified as being a former partner, aged 38”.
An investigation was immediately opened in flagrance of the assassination chief.
Around 03:00, the soldiers of the gendarmerie managed to locate the suspect at his home in Taden (Côtes-d’Armor), about twenty kilometers from Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets, and tried to arrest him.
“The first investigations noted that the defendant, at the sight of the gendarmes, had seized a stabbing weapon and had adopted a very threatening behavior towards them,” said the prosecution.
A gendarme “then made use of his service weapon on several occasions, the taser who was not enough to repel this man” and “despite the intervention of the emergency services, the individual died a few minutes later”, according to the same source.
The Saint-Malo prosecutor’s office prescribed the opening of a second flagration investigation, of the chief of violence with the use of a weapon that led to death without the intention of giving it.
This second investigation was entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) and the military having used his service weapon was placed in police custody. The autopsies of the bodies of the two deceased should be performed on Monday, said the prosecution.
In 2023, 96 women were victims of marital feminicide in France, a figure down 19% compared to 2022, according to the latest assessment of the Interior Ministry published in late November 2024.
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