The procedure had initially been opened for “attempted voluntary homicide”, but the driver will finally be presented on Tuesday to an examining magistrate for “murder by spouse”, specified the prosecutor.
A man in his forties died after being run over on the morning of Sunday April 4 in Baccarat (Meurthe-et-Moselle) by a car clearly driven by his concubine who is suspected of “spousal murder“, we learned from the public prosecutor François Pérain.
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The procedure had initially been opened for “attempted murderand the woman and her lover, owner of the vehicle, had been taken into custody. But the latter, a time suspected despite his denials of being on board the vehicle during the events, was finally exonerated, said François Pérain in a press release in the evening. The elements of “his telephony” as well as “witnesses” demonstrated “that he was not at the scene of the events“, he said, adding that the police custody of the lover had been lifted on Monday. The driver, born in 1988, will be presented to an examining magistrate on Tuesday.that we are going to seize for spousal murder“, continued the prosecutor.
“Do not leave”
The victim, hospitalized on Sunday at the Nancy University Hospital “with a vital prognosis“, is indeed deceased, added the magistrate. According to witnesses, Sunday morning around 5:30 a.m., as the vehicle was about to leave, the victim came to the front of the car, banging on the window and repeating several times, “do not leave“, probably addressing his concubine. The car thenaccelerated sharply and took the victim for a hundred meters, until crashing into a second vehicleand then flee, according to François Pérain.
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According to “testimonials» and the statements of the driver, she «was alone in the vehicle at the time of the incident“, continued François Pérain: “Her lover had lent her (his car) and she indicated that following an argument with her partner, she had wanted to leave the marital home in this vehicle“. She also claimed to have beenvictim of domestic violence“, related the magistrate, specifying that” to our knowledge, (she) had never complained“. She explained that she wanted to run away from home and would then “rammed her partner“. Called by the Nancy hospital as a companion of a patient, she would have gone with her lover to the establishment where they were both arrested, according to François Pérain.