A French court sentenced a man on Friday to 27 years in prison for strangling his wife, then cutting up her body and scattering her remains in a park in northeastern Paris in 2023.

Workers found a plastic bag containing parts of the wife's body in the Buttes-Chaumont park, one of the capital's largest parks and a popular destination for families and runners, while her head was found the following day.

Investigators said the couple were originally from Algeria and had three children, lived in the suburbs of Paris, but had separated emotionally and faced financial difficulties.

After killing his wife, the man placed her body on the couch, covered it with a blanket, told his children not to disturb her because she was tired, and then went out to buy an electric saw.

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Although he sent messages to her phone asking where she was, he later confessed to the police that he committed the crime.

A Paris court issued a verdict on Friday convicting the 53-year-old man of murder.

It is worth noting that in 2024, 107 women were killed by a partner or ex-partner in France, an increase of 11 percent compared to the previous year, according to official figures.