She was only 26 years old. A young woman was killed by several stab wounds in Narbonne in Aude on the night of June 25 to 26, 2022, the prosecution announced. A police source pointed out that her ex-husband is wanted. “An aggravated homicide investigation has been opened“, told AFP the prosecution, without providing more details on the circumstances of the death which could be the 60th case of feminicides in France since the beginning of the year. The Independentthe ex-boyfriend was unfavorably known to the judicial services, but not for domestic violence.
The woman, seriously injured with several stab wounds to the arm and neck, was discovered at the foot of her building on Saturday shortly before midnight by one of her friends, before dying in the night, according to a police source. Her ex-boyfriend, absent from the victim’s home, is actively sought, added the police source, specifying that the departmental security of Aude had been seized.
According to the website of The Independent of the MidIwhen the police arrived in front of the building, they saw a crowd in the main hall: “DNeighbors who had come out of their homes, alerted by howls of distress, had tried to help one of their neighbours, while waiting for the firefighters to arrive. The young woman was on the ground, bleeding. The SAMU was at that time at the bedside of the victim.“
Two neighbors tried everything to keep the young woman alive. “They applied the compression point on the neck for as long as possible, while the rescuers took over.“, reports the publication. Their efforts were unfortunately in vain, the young woman did not survive her injuries around midnight. The departmental security of Aude was seized.