Illustration of GIGN. – Nicolas Messyasz / SIPA
A small village in Aube experienced a real tragedy on the night from Wednesday to Thursday. A social worker was shot dead in Virey-sous-Bar and a man, who could have been the author of the shooting (s), was discovered dead after an intervention by the GIGN.
The woman found dead “is a social worker who came to the home [de cet homme] and died of shooting ”, indicated this Thursday the prosecutor of Troyes, Sophie Macquart-Moulin, present in the night in this village located about twenty kilometers south of Troyes.
An intervention around 1 a.m.
“The GIGN invested the premises and found a man who had died by gunshot”, the suicide thesis being, at this stage of the investigation, privileged, she explained at the end of this intervention of the Intervention Group. of the National Gendarmerie of Versailles, around 1 a.m. The autopsy of the two bodies will allow us to learn more about the circumstances of the deaths, she said.