A 49-year-old Gabonese woman was found at her home in Pessan, Gers, shot with the corpse of her octogenarian husband in what appears to be a "feminicide followed by suicide", said Wednesday. the parquet of Auch. "The investigation is just starting but it is the most likely hypothesis", the first elements excluding the intervention of a third party, said the prosecutor, Charlotte Beluet.
The couple was married in 2018
The woman, lying on her bed "with an impact to the head" and the man, who was lying "on the ground the brain torn next to his rifle" were discovered Tuesday by one of the daughters of the alleged perpetrator, who gave the alert, said the magistrate. The 81-year-old retired had left notes claiming he had surprised his wife with another man.
The couple, without a criminal record, had married in July 2018 after coming to France as part of a marital agreement of the victim. The authorities had not been seized of incidents of violence within the couple, but the victim had recently contacted the Information Center for the Rights of Women and Families, said Charlotte Beluet. According to La Dépêche du Midi , the pensioner, father of three, was on his third marriage. In 2018, 121 women were killed in France during domestic violence, one every three days, according to the Ministry of the Interior.