In the early hours of Saturday morning, in Fléville-devant-Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), police were called around 2 a.m. for a "domestic attempted homicide." Upon arrival, they discovered a 46-year-old woman at her home, "her face mutilated," according to the Nancy prosecutor's office.
Her 56-year-old husband is suspected of having tried to kill her before "attempting to take his own life in the apartment," according to prosecutor François Capin-Dulhoste. Both spouses, whose lives are not in danger, were taken to the hospital.
Night falls, justice takes its course.
The procedure promises to be complex, as is often the case when a personal matter becomes a criminal case: the investigation has been entrusted to the territorial crime division, opened for attempted homicide by a spouse and acts of torture and barbarity. A box cutter was found near the suspect, although it is not yet possible to confirm that it was the weapon used.
Two children, aged four and seven, were asleep in the apartment at the time of the incident; they were taken to the university hospital for psychological support. Now, the legal process begins, establishing responsibility, but so does the social process, as violent deaths within couples continue to make headlines and serve as a stark reminder that danger can sometimes lurk where we think we're at home.
