The state of her health was 'not good', local prosecutor Olivier Glady told AFP after her examination by the local forensic medicine service.
The couple's apartment in eastern France
A police source said initially the woman, also German, was found with her head shaved in a bedroom of the apartment, had multiple injuries and was undernourished. She had probably been tortured, the source said. Blood tests showed that she was not significantly dehydrated, he said, adding that there were "inconsistencies" in her accounts to investigators.
Police said the bedroom and other rooms in the apartment were closed off with metal wire at the flat in Forbach in eastern France, near the German border.A police source said the woman, who is 53, got access to a phone and called police in Wiesbaden, western Germany, who in turn alerted their French colleagues.Over the years, the man had told everyone in the building that his wife had cancer, said Alicia, a neighbour.
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