MONTREAL --
In what police believe is the 11th suspected case of femicide this year, a 35-year-old Montreal man was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder in the death of his wife in Côte Saint-Luc.
Ariobarzan Bakhtiar appeared at the Montreal courthouse to face the murder charge after Zoleikha Bakhtiar, 36, was killed overnight in an apartment building on Adalbert Avenue, near Earle Road.
"The information we have .. and our investigators will analyse all that .. is that they were in a marital relationship," said Montreal police spokesperson Julien Lévesque.
The accused will remain in custody and is due back in court on July 5.