According to prosecutor Laurent Zuchowicz, the suspect fled when the police arrived and returned the next day to stab his wife twice in the chest, in front of their 16-year-old son.
A 53-year-old Albanian, already convicted of violence against his spouse and banned from territory, was indicted and imprisoned in La Rochelle after a clandestine return and two assaults on his wife, we learned on Tuesday May 24 from the wooden floor.
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The man, indicted for attempted homicide, was sentenced in July 2021 for violence against his wife, a 53-year-old Albanian living in La Rochelle and from whom he is separated. “In an irregular situation“, he had been imprisoned and then taken back to Albania on his release from prison at the end of September, with “entry ban (to France) for two years“, said in a press release the prosecutor of La Rochelle Laurent Zuchowicz.
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Two stab wounds to the chest
According to this source, the suspecthad just returned clandestinely to Francewhen he again assaulted his wife, at her home, on May 18, in the presence of the children. The woman wasshocked and seriously hurt“. When the police arrived, the man had fled and returned the following day. According to the statement, he carried her “two stab wounds to the chest despite the intervention of their 16-year-old son and a person who was helping the victim in an associative context“. The police arrested him in the neighborhood as he fled. A knife was discovered nearby. The wife was hospitalized witha life-threatening pneumothoraxbut his condition stabilized. The son, injured while trying to disarm his father, was prescribed an 8-day ITT.
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Before the investigators, the suspect indicated that he had become “out of controlbecause of medical issues and denied any homicidal intent. He was indicted on Saturday for “violence by spouse in a state of legal recidivism, attempted homicide by spouse, violence aggravated in recidivism on his son and the associative member present and irregular entry into the national territory despite an entry ban“. He was remanded in custody.
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