The woman found dead in the trunk of her car on Friday evening in the Doubs was "very probably" killed by her companion, then fatally injured by the shooting of a gendarme after being ultra-violent, said Sunday the Attorney for the Republic of Besançon.

The victim, aged 54 and mother of two adult daughters, presented "multiple blows" to the head which was "purplish", said Etienne Manteaux.

His companion, 39, injured in the chest by the shooting of a gendarme, told a firefighter before collapsing that he had "beaten" his wife because she had "cheated", continued the prosecutor.

"We are most likely in front of a feminicide," he added.

The General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) was also seized.

The police custody of the gendarme author of the shooting was lifted, according to Etienne Manteaux, who evokes the first “concordant elements” allowing to consider a shooting “of self-defense”, the madman having deployed a great violence against the forces of the order.

Panic in the village festival

The facts go back to Friday evening, in the village of Guillon-les-Bains, near Besançon. The body of the fifty-year-old had been found by gendarmes in the trunk of her car, visibly damaged and parked at the edge of a road on the heights of the village. The soldiers had been called to control her husband who, extremely excited, sowed in particular panic in a village festival, below. Alerted by a person hit in the face with a stone, the firefighters also paid the price for his "rage": he hit one of them and chased the firefighters who were turning back in their truck, according to Etienne Coats.

During the party, the villagers provided with "shovels" and "brooms" managed to put him to flight, said the prosecutor.

On the heights of the village, he wanted to seize a fire truck, before going into the forest and coming back armed with stones.

It was there, after the usual summons, that a gendarme shot him "once", without knowing if he had touched him because of the darkness, according to Etienne Manteaux.

The madman again tried to take a police vehicle, before a student police officer used his taser to stop him.

Finally under control, he confided to a firefighter the murder of his wife.

Hospitalized, he died a few hours later in hospital.

The autopsies will take place at the beginning of the week.

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  • Franche-Comte

  • Miscellaneous

  • Gendarmerie

  • Investigation

  • Feminicide