Overview
- Police were called around 1 p.m. to an apartment at 24 avenue de la Méditerranée in Nice, where they found a 39-year-old woman fatally wounded and her 17-year-old daughter seriously injured.
- The teenager was hospitalized in life-threatening condition, and a two-year-old present in the home was uninjured and secured by responding officers.
- The husband, born in 1978, was arrested at the scene and placed in police custody on suspicion of homicide by spouse and attempted homicide in an inquiry led by Nice’s judicial police.
- Authorities said the family includes seven children born between 2007 and 2023, and the association Montjoye has been mobilized to support the victims.
- Prosecutors noted the suspect had been prosecuted for domestic violence in December 2023 and later acquitted in May 2024, while local officials publicly condemned the killing.