The murder of the policewoman took place on the street with a "machete-type weapon" when she was off duty. The victim had just dropped off one of her children at the nursery in the village La Croix-de-la-Rochette, near Chambéry, Savoie, France. The suspect, her ex-husband already known for acts of violence.
Wanted since Thursday, the former husband of a policewoman was arrested Friday morning and placed in police custody in Arvillard, a town near, where the facts took place.
The 61-year-old man man was apprehended "without difficulty". His vehicle had been spotted the day before in the parking lot of a Buddhist meditation center « Karma Ling ». It was then around 10 a.m. that the suspect finally got out of the forest where he had spent the night. The road towards Karma Ling.