Couple discovered lifeless on couch, TV on

It was the daughter of this couple of three kids who, on coming back from faculty close to Besançon, discovered the door of the household dwelling closed and gave the alert. Upon getting into the lodging, the emergency providers and the gendarmes found the couple lifeless, shot and killed, sitting aspect by aspect on the couch in the lounge, in entrance of the tv on.

A possible assassination of a partner adopted by a suicide tied in opposition to the background of a breakup, the fifth feminicide in a yr within the Besançon court docket sector, public prosecutor Etienne Manteaux introduced on Wednesday.

A gesture in all probability “premeditated”

The girl, a 43-year-old childminder, mom of a fourth youngster from a earlier union, had a gunshot wound to the arm and one other, “instantly” deadly, to the temple. Her husband, 48 years outdated and employed within the building trade, armed with a shotgun, was additionally fatally shot within the head, based on prosecutor Etienne Manteaux. “The sturdy speculation is that it’s a murder” of the partner on his companion adopted by suicide, based on the prosecutor. After capturing her, in all probability unexpectedly, “the person in all probability turned the gun on himself”. The latter was preserving a 21-month-old child on the time of the tragedy. The kid, discovered protected and sound in a room by the emergency providers, was not frightened and a priori noticed nothing.

The person appears to have premeditated his gesture, continued the Justice of the Peace. He left “writings, affixed to the fridge”, one in every of which signifies: “I’ll bust his face round 3 p.m.”. Based on the medical expert, the deaths occurred between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. A breakup not accepted by the partner appears to be on the origin of the drama: “the identical morning, the woman had introduced the breakup of Pacs to the city corridor” of the couple , based on the prosecutor.

Based on the newest figures from the Ministry of the Inside, 122 girls have been victims of femicide in 2021, a quantity up 20% in comparison with 2020.