Two women drug a man, slit his throat and then dismember the corpse. The press dubbed them "the butchers of Rouen". Now the two accused of murder have to answer before the assize court in the French city.
Four years after a man's dismembered body was found, the trial against the victim's partner and one of her friends has begun in Rouen, France. The two women are facing charges in the Normandy city's murder of the car dealer, while a third woman is charged as an accomplice.
The media is talking about the trial of "the butchers of Rouen," which also reported on the partner's confession and the gruesome details of the investigation. Because the car dealer was allegedly violent, his partner, a beautician, decided to kill him. A customer friend who was in on the plan hired her as a helper. First, the two procured protective suits, cutting tools and an anesthetic, which the man was served with an aperitif in the evening. As he collapsed to the ground in a daze, the two slit his throat with butcher knives. Then they dismembered the body and threw the wrapped body parts into the Seine and another river.
A patrol by the water police first discovered the victim's torso floating in the Seine, and a few days later other body parts were found. Although the skin on the dead man's fingers and his fingerprints were removed, investigators were able to identify the victim through his DNA. When the investigators arrived, his partner made a confession, the newspaper "Le Parisien" reported. The two alleged perpetrators face life imprisonment, the verdicts are to be spoken next Friday.
