After the homicide, the man jumped out of the eighth floor of the apartment.
A woman was found dead on the evening of Thursday March 2, victim of multiple stab wounds at her home in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), from where her companion killed himself by jumping out of a window, a-t -we learned this Friday from police sources.
The Melun prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for intentional homicide by spouse, entrusted to the city police station. Around 10:30 p.m., the emergency services discovered that a 45-year-old man had jumped out of the eighth floor of a building, according to a police source.
Inside her apartment, they find the body of the woman, stabbed eleven times, police sources say. The number of murders of women increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed by the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, against 102 in 2020, according to figures from the Ministry of l ‘Interior.
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