An American man was charged with murder after allegedly admitting to fatally stabbing and dismembering his French wife in their vacation home on the Mediterranean coast before the couple returned to Indonesia, where they lived and worked.
Billy Kruger, a French-American man from Brooklyn, appeared in court in southwest France on Sunday where he was charged with one count of aggravated murder, pending a possible trial, said Marie-Agnès Joly, a prosecutor in the city. from Narbonne. He was detained at the Toulouse-Blagnac airport on Friday before he could board a flight to Jakarta.
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French police are standing next to a drain where the body of Laure Bardina-Kruger was found, in Peyriac de Mer, southern France, on Friday July 24, 2020. (AP Photo / Christophe Barreau)
The man allegedly told investigators that he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed his wife, Laure Bardina-Kruger, 52, twice during an argument at their vacation home in Peyriac-de-Mer, on the Mediterranean coast, south of Narbonne
Bardina-Kruger’s father, who lives in the same French region, called the police after the couple did not call him or visit him before his scheduled flight back to Indonesia, Reuters reported, quoting the France-Presse agency. . Police who arrived at the couple’s vacation home in Peyriac-de-Mer found the wife’s luggage. Her dismembered body was located in a nearby drain.
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Kruger worked as a diving instructor in Indonesia, the Associated Press reported, quoting the local newspaper La Dépêche du Midi. His wife taught French at the Jakarta Intercultural School, according to her LinkedIn page. The couple are said to have been on vacation for several weeks a year at their vacation home in Peyriac-de-Mer.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
