These are extremely serious events. A man in his thirties was arrested and taken into custody on Monday, July 6. He is suspected of having killed his partner in Perpignan, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, AFP learned on Tuesday from multiple sources. 

According to a police source, the man in his thirties was seen leaving a building, one arm covered in blood, shouting "call the police", before calling emergency services himself and declaring that he had slit his partner's throat, who was found dead at her home. 

The suspect, who has a criminal record, was arrested on a departmental road towards Narbonne, then taken into custody for murder of a spouse or partner, said the prosecutor of Perpignan , Jérôme Bourrier.