during his time in custody, Billy Kruger, of american nationality, and who resided in Indonesia with his wife, recognized him, having borne two blows of a knife.
The husband of a teacher working in Indonesia, stabbed to death near Narbonne (Aude), has been indicted for “aggravated murder” and placed in detention on remand on Sunday, after his arrest in extremis at the airport of Toulouse, stated the public prosecutor.
during his time in custody, Billy Kruger, of american nationality, and who resided in Indonesia with his wife, recognized him, having borne two blows of a knife, explaining later to the investigating judge that he was seeking “to defend themselves,” said prosecutor Marie-Agnès Joly.
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“in Accordance with the requisitions of the parquet, it has been made in consideration of the head of aggravated murder, as committed on a spouse, and placed in provisional detention,” added Ms. Joly.
The victim, Laure Kruger, had been discovered lifeless Friday in a mouth drainage of rain water, a few hundred metres of the secondary residence of the couple to Peyriac-de-Mer, a village south of Narbonne, where they were in the habit to spend a few weeks per year.
The franco-american had to leave on Friday in Indonesia. 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.
40th femicide
After the discovery of the body, the mounties have contacted the police and air borders, which has finally challenged the man at the end of the morning while he was in the boarding area of the airport of Toulouse, according to the prosecutor.
Sunday, Peyriac-de-Mer, a bouquet of white roses had been placed at the top of a board covering the mouth of an evacuation.
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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.
“We do not yet know all the facts, but we have never had the signal of alarm on the part of Laure, in regard to violent acts against her by her husband. We always think that it can only happen to others, but violence against women can occur from a blow”, wrote on his page Facebook Pierre Bardina, the brother of the victim.
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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.
