Eight months after the assassination of two teachers from the Desaix college in Tarbes, the investigation could experience a turning point in the coming hours. On July 4, Aurélie Pardon, 32, and Gabriel Fourmigué, 55, were shot dead in Pouyastruc, a village in the Hautes-Pyrénées. Cédric Tauleygne, the husband of the young woman with whom he was in the process of separation, had been quickly suspected and a search notice had been issued by the national gendarmerie.
Since then, investigators have been looking for him in the area of Jaca, Spain, where the motorcycle of this sports shooting enthusiast had been found. On Sunday, around noon, a man who was on a hunting trip found a corpse in an advanced state of decomposition in the undergrowth on the slopes of Peña Oroel, reports the Spanish newspaper. Heraldo. Near the body were a white motorcycle helmet, a bag with ammunition, a telephone and a pistol that the man held in his hand, suggesting that he ended his life.
Ongoing technical investigations
“I can confirm that a body likely to correspond to that of Cédric Tauleygne was found in the search area, on the Spanish side. However, we must remain cautious at this stage since technical investigations are in progress to confirm, or even invalidate, that the body considered is that of the individual sought, “indicated to 20 minutes the public prosecutor of Pau, Rodolphe Jarry whose prosecution had opened “a judicial investigation of the charge of premeditated murder”.
An autopsy which can confirm that it is indeed the suspect should be carried out at the hospital of Huesca where the body was taken in a helicopter of the Spanish Guardia Civil. Aged 34, Cédric Tauleygne, who worked in a factory in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques manufacturing helicopter engines, was suspected of having premeditated the assassination of the mother of his two children and of Gabriel Fourmigué whom she had approached. recently.