• The lifeless bodies of a 60-year-old woman and her 25-year-old daughter were discovered at their home in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande on November 23.

  • The body of the father was found hanged, suggesting a double murder, followed by suicide.

  • In the aftermath of the tragedy, the Chevrolais district is in shock from this tragedy that no one saw coming.

The awakening was painful in the small street of the Round Table this Thursday morning.

It is in this small artery of the quiet Chevrolais subdivision, in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, that a family was found dead on Wednesday November 23.

According to the first elements of the investigation, a 50-year-old man was found hanged in his house.

The lifeless bodies of his wife, 60, and their daughter, 25, were discovered in the pavilion.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, only the police seals placed on the doors and the closed shutters of the house leave a clue of the drama which took place behind closed doors.

An investigation was opened for assassinations, suggesting that the act could have been premeditated.

“I don't believe it, it's right next to us”, slips a retiree who lives in this uneventful neighborhood located close to Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine).


The alert was given around 2 p.m. by the young woman's employer.

The real estate agency she worked for was worried that she hadn't seen her at work.

Mobilized, the firefighters forced the door of the home and discovered the three lifeless bodies.

That of Martial V., an agent from the Ille-et-Vilaine department working in a college, was hanged.

His daughter's was lying on the floor in his bedroom, with no apparent trace of violence.

As for that of the mother, a very young retiree, he was discovered lying on the marital bed.

"The first forensic findings revealed the existence of trauma to the body of the mother of the family", revealed the Rennes prosecutor's office on Wednesday evening.

The family was unknown to the police.

Long cordoned off by the police for the purposes of the investigation, the street reopened overnight, leaving residents in awe.

“We are all in shock.

What happened is terrible, it is unthinkable.

We don't understand, ”says the neighbor of the missing family.

“He was a lovely man”

On Wednesday, her husband was heard by the investigators to try to understand what could have happened behind the beige plaster facade.

The track favored by the judicial police is that of a double homicide committed by the father of the family, who would have ended his life after the fact.

“He was a charming, polite, helpful man.

He always had a little joke.

I never would have imagined that he could act like this.

I never would have thought that such a tragedy could happen, ”she testifies, with tears in her eyes.

How was the couple?

“Apparently well, they looked happy, normal what.

She had been retired for a month, it's a tragedy”.


In the house, the investigators discovered a letter where Martial V. explains his gesture.

According to the public prosecutor Philippe Astruc, the suspect announces that he is ending his life as well as those of his partner and his daughter.

“He attributed his actions to a malaise that could be linked to a serious illness from which he would be suffering”, specifies the press release.

In the neighborhood, we talk about “health glitches”.

“But nothing too serious.

Or he hadn't told us about it.

A handwriting comparison test must be performed to verify the origin of this writing.

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