during the police custody, the man was recognized “the facts indicating to have borne two blows of knife to his wife, Laure Kruger, a 52-year-old.
A French teacher living in Indonesia has been killed “knife” near Narbonne (Aude) and her husband, an american citizen, arrested in the nick of time in the boarding area of the airport of Toulouse, admitted the facts, said Saturday the prosecutor’s office.
during the police custody, which has been extended, the man has recognized “the facts indicating to have borne two blows of knife to his wife, Laure Kruger, 52 years old, in the village of Peyriac-de-Mer, in the Corbières maritimes, on the mediterranean coast, says the prosecutor, Marie-Agnès Joly in a press release.
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“given the place of habitual living of the couple, in Indonesia, it is unknown and investigations services of the French judicial authorities, including for domestic violence”. The husband will be presented Sunday to a judge of instruction for review.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Laure Kruger taught French at the Jakarta Intercultural School. She lived in the indonesian capital for 2015 after having previously been stationed in Shanghai (China), Cairo and Hawaii (Usa) in particular.
40th femicide
The couple was to leave on Friday in Indonesia, where he lived. The father of the victim had called the mayor of Peyriac-de-Mer, worried about not seeing his daughter and his son-in-law who would have had to pay him a visit to Carcassonne before their departure. The franco-american had for about three years an apartment in this village south of Narbonne, where he resided a few weeks per year.
Alerted by the city council, the police quickly found personal items of the victim were “left to the secondary residence of the married couple,” according to the press release of the prosecutor. The body of the victim, “is hidden in a mouth of evacuation of rain water on the public road 150 m from the marital home” was then quickly discovered by the gendarmes.
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“The checks done at the airport of Toulouse Blagnac will learn that the husband has embarked alone on a flight to Jakarta, and was about to take off. Immediately contacted by the gendarmerie, the police and air borders will appeal to the man in the end of the morning while he is in the boarding area of the airport of Toulouse”, according to the prosecutor. Further investigation will be conducted by an investigating judge in charge of illuminate including the context in which the facts occurred, according to the public prosecutor.
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This case involved at least 40 the number of femicides suspected since the beginning of the year, according to a count by the AFP. In 2019, the AFP has documented at least 126 cases of women killed by their partners or ex, or one woman every three days on average.
