A man suspected of the femicide of a 22-year-old French woman near Aosta at the end of last month was arrested in Lyon late on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old man, Teima Sohaib, had been seen with the woman days before the probable date of the crime.
Her body was found last Friday in a ruined church above La Salle, in the Aosta Valley.
An autopsy on Tuesday showed she had bled to death from deep stab wounds to the neck and abdomen.
She was identified by family members and named as Auriane Nathalie Laisne on Thursday.
The man was said to have been born to an Egyptian immigrant family in Italy but lives near Grenoble.
The victim was from the town of Saint-Priest, on the outskirts of Lyon, French media said.
The suspect is already on trial in Grenoble on suspicion of physically abusing the victim, French media said Wednesday.
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