A man in his thirties was shot in the head in Maubourguet, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, by the ex-companion of his friend, who took refuge at his home in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques before being arrested there on Thursday, we learned from concordant sources.
The author of the shots, whose wife had been separated for about six months, showed up on Wednesday evening at the apartment where the couple lived in a house in Maubourguet, according to the Tarbes prosecutor’s office. “He allegedly fired a gun at the level of the occupant’s head. It seems that these two people had a dispute on the basis of jealousy“, said the prosecution.
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A flagrant investigation of the murder chief was opened and entrusted to the research section of the gendarmerie in Toulouse, according to the same source, adding that “the author would have acted in an unpredictable manner, without having given warning signs“.
After also firing shots in the air, this man, whose age or profession were not disclosed, fled by car. He was located Thursday morning at his home in Bassillon-Vauzé, a village located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, about 13 km from Maubourguet. About fifty personnel from the departmental gendarmerie group were then deployed around his home, where he was finally arrested in the afternoon, according to a source from the gendarmerie.