Drama in the North. A man was arrested and taken into police custody in Roubaix after the discovery in the night of Monday to Tuesday of the lifeless body of his wife, announced the parquet floor of Lille. The individual is heard “in the context of an investigation for spousal homicide”, specified the prosecution, which refused “for the time being” to any other precision.
The body of this woman in her fifties was found at her home. While the husband was known to the police for acts of domestic violence, France 3 and La Voix du Nord state that the victim had filed a complaint a few weeks ago for acts of domestic violence. The investigation was entrusted to the domestic violence brigade of the Roubaix police station.
102 feminicides in 2020
According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior, 146 women were victims of femicides in 2019 and 102 in 2020. The feminist collective against sexist and sexual violence #NousToutes counted 113 femicides in 2021.