Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Gaël Rangain
Published on 2024-02-20 14:00:40
Marie Lourde Jolicoeur, 49 years old, gave the first details to the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of Vacoas about the circumstances of the murder of her partner Jean Noël Frederick Nathian (50 years old). She says she is a battered woman and claims that it is after consuming alcohol that the fifty-year-old becomes violent.
The couple lived in a rented house in Diolle, Vacoas and they had no children in their care. “Telma, I was getting beaten, I went to Rodrigues to visit my family. I couldn’t do it,” she says. It was on the insistence of her partner that she returned to Mauritius more than a week ago. “I thought he would change his ways,” she adds.
She says that on Saturday morning, the situation was calm at home. After dinner, the couple consumed alcoholic drinks. Thus, Jean Noël Nathian began to denigrate his half about her trip to Rodrigues. The argument became more violent, and she accuses the victim of taking out a cutter to attack her. “We both ended up fighting with a cutter. He injured me. Then, I killed him with the same cutter,” she said in her statement. Marie Lourde Jolicoeur says she did not realize the severity of the injury suffered by her partner. She explains that their house is without electricity and it was dark.
She also does not remember which part of the victim’s body was hit. Under the influence of alcohol, Jean Noël Nathian also underestimated the severity of his injuries and went to bed. It was only the next day that the suspect discovered the body of her partner on the bed with blood marks on the neck and face. She ran into the street where a neighbor found her. Marie Lourde Jolicoeur kept shouting, “I killed my partner with a cutter.”
The neighbor called the police, claiming, “A woman told me she killed her husband.” Once in the yard, the police found the suspect sitting and in a state of shock. There were bloodstains on her clothes and hands. She had a cut mark on her left arm.
The police alerted the SAMU where a doctor confirmed the death of Jean Noël Nathian. The autopsy attributed the death to a Sectioned Right Carotid. Experts from the Scene of Crime Office (Soco) seized a knife and a cutter at the crime scene. The suspect, who declined any medical assistance, was charged with a provisional murder charge at the Curepipe court yesterday and remains in custody.
This investigation is being supervised by ACP Veeramalay and Woman ACP Boodhoo, assisted by superintendents Auhammud and Jankee.
Read the original article(French) on Le Mauricien
