Overview
- Police say the victim had gone to her former partner’s apartment to collect belongings when a dispute broke out.
- Emergency responders attempted resuscitation, and her death was pronounced at 5:20 p.m.
- The suspect allegedly moved to the seventh-floor balcony threatening suicide before officers entered the apartment and detained him.
- Prosecutors confirmed the suspect’s placement in custody and assigned the case to the police judiciaire as investigators work to establish the sequence of events.
- Malakoff’s city hall condemned the killing, and advocacy group Nous Toutes counts it as the 141st femicide this year, reflecting nationally rising intimate-partner homicides.