Criminal culture: A serene Avignon. But amid the rich medieval heritage of the city was hidden an ugly and shocking crime committed by a man against his own wife for almost a decade. The questions raised by the case have unsettled the country. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
FOR years, she had been losing hair and weight. She had started forgetting whole days, and sometimes appeared to be in dreamlike trances. Her children and friends worried she had Alzheimer’s.
But in late 2020, after she was summoned to a police station in southern France, she learned a far more shattering story.
