Europe 1 with AFP 8:45 p.m., January 22, 2023, modified at 9:43 p.m., January 22, 2023

A man committed suicide this Sunday in Saint-Brieuc in the Côtes d'Armor after killing his daughter and his companion.

The place of the drama is located in a quiet street, away from the city center in a three-storey building from the 1980s. Several news items have recently enamelled the region. 

A man shot and killed his partner and their little girl on Sunday in a building in Saint-Brieuc in the Côtes-d'Armor before committing suicide, according to the first elements of the investigation communicated by the Breton city prosecutor.

Around 4 p.m., "the police officers from the police station were called following gunshots in a building in Saint-Brieuc", declared the public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc Nicolas Heitz, reached by telephone by AFP.

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"There are three dead: the author of the shots allegedly killed a woman who would be his 22-year-old partner, their 3 and a half-year-old daughter and injured the mother of his partner who is 59 years old and who was hospitalized in Brest. Knowing that the person who could be the author of the shots turned the weapon against him, a priori, by killing himself", added the prosecutor, who went there shortly after the facts.

The alleged perpetrator of the shots is a 24-year-old man and the firearm used is of the "long gun" type, specified the magistrate.

Several news items that have recently occurred in Brittany

The autopsies must be carried out on Monday at the Rennes forensic institute.

The scene of the tragedy is located in a quiet street, away from the city center of the Côtes-d'Armor prefecture, in a three-storey building from the 1980s. A police car blocks the street and a few police officers were visible at the entrance to the building, noted an AFP videographer.

Several miscellaneous events took place recently in Brittany having made several deaths within the same family.

At the end of October, a man, his wife and their two daughters were found dead in their house in Carantec (Finistère).

Autopsies of the woman and her two little girls revealed that they had been asphyxiated, while the father was found hanged.

At the end of November, in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, near Rennes, the bodies of a couple and their 25-year-old daughter were discovered in a pavilion, in what could be a double homicide followed by a father's suicide.