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Man kills ex-wife and takes body to police

Police in western France had to deal with a "rare" incident this week when a man murdered his ex-wife, stuffed her body into the boot of his car and drove to a police station to report his crime.

A 41-year-old man drove to the police station in the city of Rennes, western France told officers he had killed is ex-wife and that her body was in the boot of his car. 

Police immediately searched the vehicle and found the body of the man's ex-wife curled up in the boot.

According to the local police commander Marc Guillemois the man was “calm and serein”.

“This is a very rare incident,” he added.

According to reports he strangled his ex-wife in the hall of her apartment on Tuesday with a metal cable.

He is believed to have stayed with her body for two hours before taking it to the police station, so his children would not see it.

The suspect, who is an Algerian national, was known to police for threats and violence towards his ex-wife.

The couple divorced in 2014 but he still visited her apartment to visit his children.

He has been placed in custody and faces life imprisonment.

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One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting

One person was killed and six injured overnight in a gritty northern Paris suburb in a shooting likely linked to drug trafficking, prosecutors and the mayor said Saturday.

One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting

The attack in a parking lot near a cultural centre at Sevran, which lies between central Paris and the city’s main airport Charles de Gaulle, took place around 11:45 pm (2145 GMT) Friday, prosecutors said.

Upon arriving on the scene, police found four injured people strewn on the ground. One died soon after and the three others were taken to hospitals in a serious condition, a police source said.

Three more people injured by bullets were later taken to hospital, the source said, adding that two men had arrived in the parking lot in a car and one of them got out and opened fire.

The attackers then fled.

Sevran mayor Stephane Blanchet told AFP “it was clearly a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.”

“There is a need to establish order and eradicate trafficking,” he said. “Those idiots fired live bullets and did not heed appeals for calm”.

Police have opened an investigation into intentional homicide by an organised gang, they said. No arrests had been by Saturday morning.

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