Overview
- The 29-year-old was found around 2 a.m. Friday in a public alley between the D656 road and the railway on the edge of Agen, and rescuers could not revive her.
- A forensic doctor reported a neck wound and said third-party involvement was very likely, and the Agen prosecutor opened a murder investigation.
- Police arrested a man in his thirties from the area, identified by several outlets as the victim’s former partner and father of her child, and placed him in garde à vue, which is France’s form of police custody.
- The suspect was still being questioned through Saturday under the Agen prosecutor’s oversight, with inquiries handled by the DCOS, a specialized crime unit within the Lot‑et‑Garonne interdepartmental police (DIPN47).
- Local daily Sud Ouest named the victim as Angelyne Taillefer, a young mother whose death unsettled neighbors in the dimly lit residential area, and the case comes as counts of women killed by partners have risen in France in recent years.