Overview

• The shooting occurred Tuesday afternoon inside the couple’s single-family home in the town center of L’Hôpital, a Moselle commune near the German border.
• The suspect was arrested after he called France’s emergency number 17 himself, according to a source close to the investigation.
• Sarreguemines prosecutor Olivier Glady said the man was placed in garde à vue on suspicion of murder of a spouse.
• Mayor Emmanuel Schuler condemned the killing as a feminicide and questioned the presence of firearms in private homes.
• Official data recorded 96 conjugal femicides in France in 2023, with 82% of perpetrators identified as men.