A 36-year-old man was taken into police custody on Sunday after the body of his wife was discovered by the gendarmes at the couple’s home in Pont-Péan, Ille-et-Vilaine. He had gone to the police station earlier to report the death of his wife.
A woman born in 1976 was found dead at her home in Pont-Péan, Ille-et-Vilaine, and her companion was taken into police custody, the Rennes prosecutor’s office reported.
On Sunday afternoon, a man, born in 1987, went to the Rennes police station “to report that he had found his wife dead at his home in Pont-Péan”, indicated the public prosecutor of Rennes Philippe Astruc, confirming information from West France.
Lesions on the victim’s body
The man was taken care of by the gendarmes and taken to his apartment in this town south of Rennes where the lifeless body of his wife was actually discovered. “Lesions were found on the victim’s body attesting to a death following violence,” added Philippe Astruc. A criminal investigation entrusted to the Research Brigade (BR) of Rennes was opened by the prosecution.
The victim’s husband, who also has injuries, was taken into custody. “He could not yet be heard to give his version of the facts and therefore remains presumed innocent,” said Philippe Astruc. An autopsy must be carried out on Monday to clarify the exact causes of death.
The victim told the police to be afraid of her husband
The couple met in 2014 and married in 2017. The respondent is a mason on a permanent contract in his brother’s company while the victim was unemployed, said the prosecutor.
She presented herself in February 2022 to the La Gacilly brigade, in Morbihan, to report that she had left the marital home in November 2021. “She did not file a complaint but stressed that she was afraid of her husband who was verbally violent without however exercising physical violence”, according to the same source. At this stage of the investigation, the date of the resumption of common life of the couple is not known.
