Pauline, 32, had been missing since February 15, 2024 in Lorient. His lifeless body was found on Wednesday February 21, 2024, in Lanester (Morbihan), in an undergrowth, revealed The Telegram. He presented “wounds possibly caused by a stab”, while an autopsy has been scheduled for Thursday February 22, 2024 to precisely establish the circumstances of his death. At this point, the initial investigation into a disturbing disappearance turned into an investigation into intentional homicide. In the process, a man in his twenties arrested in Pontivy and placed in police custody admitted to having killed her; it would be her boyfriend, a homeless individual whom she had only been seeing for a few days. It was he who reported her disappearance and then indicated where the remains were. According to our colleagues, he declared that the victim had succumbed to “several stab wounds”.
A call for witnesses broadcast to find Pauline
As the complete News 17, Thursday February 22, 2024, the man accused quickly aroused suspicion by making inconsistent comments. Cornered, he ended up confessing. However, he is not known to the police for domestic violence, nor is Pauline. The Lorientaise had been the subject of a call for witnesses to try to find her in recent days. We learned that she would have been seen alive for the last time on February 15, 2024 near Lorient station, “inside a car with three men.” According to the story of West Francea neighbor claimed that the suspect knocked on his door the day Pauline disappeared, saying he was “worried because he was looking for his girlfriend” ; then a second time to reveal that he “had found her, that she was upstairs in the apartment but not in her normal state and that“If there was a risk of noise, he might call the fire brigade.” This probable feminicide further increases the toll of the number of women killed by their partner or ex. According to figures, which differ depending on the associations and the government, a woman dies every three days in a marital context.