Overview

• Police found a 60-year-old woman dead in the bathroom of the couple's apartment on Passage des Tourelles in Paris's 20th arrondissement.
• Her 60-year-old husband called authorities to confess to the killing and was taken into custody, according to the initial reports.
• Reporting indicates the victim suffered multiple knife wounds to the thighs and then the chest.
• The Paris public prosecutor said the duty magistrate attended the scene and assigned the judicial police to investigate for homicide by spouse.
• The suspect is set to be transferred to a hospital for psychological examinations, and investigators say the precise circumstances remain unknown.