Paris - A French policeman confessed yesterday that he had strangled his 22-year-old wife, herself a policewoman, and cut her in pieces after learning she was leaving him, a judicial source said. Mr Olivier Soller, a 32-year-old patrolman in the suburban town of Evry, was arrested on Friday after colleagues became suspicious about his behaviour following his filing of a missing person's report on his wife Christelle.