The 64-year-old Senperetano who murdered his wife on Friday was summoned to testify before the Agen Court on 14 June. An investigation will be opened for intentional homicide. Judicial sources have reported that the Prosecutor’s Office intends to charge him for the voluntary murder of his sentimental partner, who died in 2008.

The Gendarmes have found the corpse of Jocelyne Roye, 55, at his home of Armillac Lot-et-Ung (Aquitaine), on Friday night. Shortly afterwards, they arrested their partner and the man recognized the security forces that had killed his wife by stabbing her and stabbing her. Since then, he has remained in pre-trial detention in the hands of the Lot and Garonne Public Prosecutor ' s Office, among other charges.

Although no data have been disseminated, the mayor of Senpere has informed Euskadi Irratia that the man had been residing in the town for twelve years. Meanwhile, the Naiz media has clarified, according to police sources, that the man had no criminal record and that the woman had not filed a complaint about male violence.

Women killed

According to the data published by the Berria newspaper, since 2003 110 women have been murdered, 27 of them in the French Basque Country.