Woman allegedly killed her husband in Basel

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• Police find the body of a 56-year-old Swiss man in an apartment in Basel.
• The public prosecutor's office assumes a homicide.
• The suspect is the victim's wife, a 48-year-old Russian citizen, who had reported herself in Zurich.

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Police discovered a lifeless male person in a property on the Marktplatz in Basel early on Monday morning following a tip-off. The public prosecutor's office is assuming a homicide. The 48-year-old wife was arrested.

The Basel-Stadt public prosecutor's office announced on Monday afternoon that the police were called to the property shortly after four o'clock following a voluntary report. They discovered a lifeless man in an apartment on the fourth floor.

According to initial investigations by the criminal investigation department, a woman contacted the Zurich city police on Monday night and stated that she had killed her husband in Basel on Sunday.

The deceased is a 56-year-old Swiss national and the arrested woman is a 48-year-old Russian citizen.

The public prosecutor's office will not provide any further information due to the ongoing proceedings, according to a request from the Keystone-SDA news agency.