During his police custody, the 61-year-old man admitted “being the author” of the fatal blows to his 50-year-old companion in Cavaillon, in the Vaucluse.
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The companion of a woman stabbed to death on Monday in the parking lot of her workplace in Cavaillon (Vaucluse) was indicted on Wednesday July 27 for murder and remanded in custody, the prosecutor told AFP. ‘Avignon.
Arrested at his home shortly after the incident, the 61-year-old admitted while in police custody “to be the author” mortal blows to his 50-year-old companion, said the magistrate, Florence Galtier, who opened a judicial investigation on Wednesday. “The respondent had no criminal record and had not been reported for previous violence within the couple”, said the representative of the prosecution. The man was arrested at his home as he tried to end his life using a firearm which would have jammed, she said.
It was only on the morning of the incident, around 6 a.m., that the gendarmes intervened at the victim’s home following a call from a neighbor who had witnessed violence in the apartment where this woman had expressed the wish to leave. his companion. The victim did not wish to file a complaint and left the premises to go to work.
The facts took place a few hours later near the Sterne company, specializing in the manufacture of silicone, where she worked and had just taken her lunch break in the parking lot. Seeing her companion’s car in the distance, she approached it to check his presence without seeing him before returning to his own vehicle.
While she was “Seated on the passenger side in the front, the respondent came running and stabbed him more than thirty times in the chest and face”declared the prosecutor of Avignon, who specifies that the medical examiner had noted 37 wounds including six fatal.
The use of video surveillance cameras showed that the perpetrator had entered the premises of the company by climbing a fence and then had hidden between two vehicles to wait for his victim. He then walked towards her and entered her vehicle on the passenger side before hitting her. The facts occurred in front of several employees of the company and one of them tried to intervene, without succeeding in extracting the respondent from the vehicle. He left to seek reinforcements but the man had fled with his own vehicle, added Florence Galtier.