Overview

• Ahmed B., a 60-year-old nurse, phoned police to say he had killed his wife in their 20th arrondissement apartment.
• Officers later found the 60-year-old victim in the bathroom with a cut throat and other wounds, and emergency services could not revive her.
• After two days in custody, the suspect was formally charged and placed in pretrial detention on Friday in line with prosecutors' requests.
• The Paris prosecutor's office said schizophrenia has not figured in the case file or medical opinions despite media claims.
• Investigators notified the couple's two adult children and offered support through Paris Aide aux Victimes, as officials note 96 intimate-partner femicides in France in 2023.