The lifeless bodies of two 60-year-olds were found on Saturday at their home in Vienne, it was learned on Monday from the parquet of Poitiers who opened a investigation about the circumstances of their death. The preferred hypothesis is that of a homocide of the wife by the husband who would later commit suicide, with a shotgun in both cases, according to the same source.
The events took place in a hamlet of the village of Savigné, south of Poitiers, where the man and woman lived, two pensioners aged 67 and 65, according to the newspaper. The New Republic. Their remains were discovered by one of the deceased couple’s sons who informed the gendarmes. The husband was unknown to justice, except for a drunk driving procedure in 2013, prosecutor Cyril Lacombe said.
In 2021, 122 women were killed in France by the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior.
