Overview
- Both suspects were placed under formal investigation and detained after Thursday deaths, with the Besançon ex-partner confessing during police custody, according to the local prosecutor.
- In Besançon, the 32-year-old victim was shot outside her building around 7 a.m., and the 34-year-old suspect had a recent psychiatric hospitalization and prior convictions for violence, vandalism, traffic offenses and moral harassment.
- The Besançon victim had filed complaints earlier this year, including for invasion of privacy, and had been issued a “shérif” personal alert device.
- In Beaucaire, a 50-year-old woman was found on a bed with a swollen face, an autopsy indicates a suspected link between blows and her death, and her 61-year-old partner contests a criminal cause.
- The Beaucaire couple had a domestic-violence case in May 2024 that led to a three-month no-contact order, and investigators proceed under a commission rogatoire as Miprof reports 107 intimate-partner feminicides and 270 attempts in 2024.