The lifeless bodies of two sexagenarians were found on Saturday at their home in Vienne, we learned on Monday from the Poitiers prosecutor’s office, which opened an investigation into the circumstances of their death. The preferred hypothesis is that of a murder of the wife by the husband who then committed suicide, using a shotgun in both cases, according to the same source.
The facts occurred in a hamlet in the village of Savigné, south of Poitiers, where the man and woman lived, two retirees aged 67 and 65, according to the newspaper. The New Republic. Their remains were discovered by one of the sons of the deceased couple who informed the gendarmes. The husband was unknown to the courts, with the exception of a procedure for driving under the influence of alcohol in 2013, said the public prosecutor Cyril Lacombe.
In 2021, 122 women were killed in France under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior.