A 38-year-old man killed his former partner on the night between Friday and Saturday in Saint-Jouan-Des-Guyrets (Ille-Et-Vilaine, in Brittany) and then fled before he was killed on a gunshot from a police officer in Cotees-D’Armer, the Saint-Malo prosecutor announced.
On the night between Friday and Saturday, “Saint-Malo’s Gendarmerie was called shortly after midnight to intervene in the city of Saint-Jouan-Des-Guants for a 36-year-old woman who had been attacked on the street in the neck area with a cutting weapon,” said the Breton city prosecutor in a widespread press release tonight. The gendarmes “witnessed the death of this woman and the author’s escape, identified as a 38 -year -old former partner”.
An investigation was immediately opened on the murder accusation. Around 3 in the morning, the agents of the Gendarmeria managed to locate the suspect in his home in Taden (Cotees-d’arro), about twenty kilometers from Saint-Jouan-Des-Guanti, and attempted to arrest him. “The first investigations revealed that the suspect, at the sight of the gendarmes, had grabbed a cutting weapon and had behaved in a very threatening way towards them,” said the prosecutor.
A gendarme “therefore shot several shots with his weapon of ordinance; The Taser had not been enough to reject the man “and” despite the intervention of the rescue, the individual died a few minutes later “, according to the same source. The Prosecutor of Saint-Malo ordered the opening of a second investigation into the crime of violence with the use of weapon that caused death without willful misconduct. This second investigation was entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (PGIGN) and the soldier who used his service weapon was arrested.
The autopsies on the bodies of the two victims are scheduled for Monday. In 2023, 96 women were victims of domestic femicide in France, a figure down by 19% compared to 2022, according to the latest report of the Ministry of the Interior published at the end of November 2024
