A woman and a man, both aged 60, were found shot dead in Bossay-sur-Claise (in Indre-et-Loire). It would be a feminicide followed by a suicide, the Tours prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.
On Friday morning, gendarmes went to the home of the couple residing in this town of 800 inhabitants, “their respective employers being worried about their absence”, said the public prosecutor of Tours Grégoire Dulin in a press release. In the house, “they discovered in the basement the lifeless bodies of a woman who had been hit by a shot in the right flank and a man with a bullet wound in the head”.
Rifle shooting
“According to the first elements of the investigation, which will have to be confirmed, the 60-year-old man may have shot his companion, aged the same age (sic), with a gun as she was about to leave. return to his place of work around 5:40 in the morning. “He would then have killed himself a few minutes later in a room located in the basement of the house, according to the prosecutor, specifying that the findings were continuing this Saturday and that numerous hearings were in progress to “confirm the first elements collected.
A judicial investigation of the head of spousal homicide has been opened by the Tours prosecutor’s office and the continuation of the investigations is entrusted to the Research Brigade (BR) of the Loches gendarmerie. The main suspect had no criminal record. The autopsies will take place Monday at the forensic institute of Tours.