A woman in her 40s was stabbed to death in front of her 15-year-old daughter. It was she who called for help, who arrested the victim’s spouse.
This Saturday, July 24, 2021, a woman in her forties died in Vauvert in the Gard, after being stabbed, report France Blue and Free noon. According to the first elements of the investigation, the drama took place in the family apartment and her husband, born in 1949, was arrested.
The facts were discovered after the couple’s 15-year-old daughter called for help. According to the mayor of Vauvert, Jean Denat, the teenager would have “seen everything, heard everything”. The firefighters were immediately dispatched to the scene but, despite their best efforts, “there was nothing more to do” for the victim, suffering from several wounds caused by a stabbing weapon. She therefore could not be saved and died in the late afternoon.
The main suspect is the victim’s companion and the septuagenarian has been arrested and taken into police custody. The Gard gendarmerie brigade was seized of the investigation to determine the circumstances of this feminicide, indicates Free noon.
The couple’s three children, two boys aged 17 and 13 and the teenager who raised the alert, were placed in foster care at least for the weekend, having no family ties in the family. region. In the words of our colleagues from France Bleu, they would be at “a family from the commune, which particularly knows the victim’s daughter”. Vauvert town hall also reacted by creating a help unit, led by a psychologist, to support the three teenagers.