Overview
- Police opened a suspected conjugal homicide investigation after a 31-year-old woman was found dead below her apartment in Marseille’s 15th arrondissement.
- Emergency crews attempted prolonged resuscitation after an apparent fall from the seventh floor, and a SMUR doctor pronounced her dead at the scene.
- Police detained her 27-year-old companion found drunk and incoherent in the apartment, and prosecutors say he had no prior record of domestic violence.
- The on-call public prosecutor attended the scene and ordered an autopsy to determine how the woman died.
- Investigators are also examining a possible feminicide, a term in France for the killing of a woman because of her gender.