The lifeless bodies of three individuals were discovered by police on Tuesday, May 25 at the end of the morning in an apartment in the Cité-jardin district, in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), reported
Le Parisien
.
According to the first findings of the investigators, it would be a double homicide followed by a suicide.
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The accommodation is that of an elderly couple.
It was an employee of a personal services company who sounded the alert, astonished not to obtain any response from the couple to whom he was to deliver two meal trays.
In the apartment, the officers of the Suresnes police station therefore discovered the three bodies, that of a 65-year-old man and his two parents, each of whom was nearly 95 years old.
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If the causes of death have yet to be confirmed by autopsies and toxicological analyzes, the body of the father bore, according to information from the
Parisian
, signs of strangulation.
The son allegedly stabbed himself in the stomach with a knife.
Still according to the regional daily, the man, the couple's only son, simply could not
"cope",
which would have motivated his act. Alone and without outside help, he no longer seemed to succeed in supporting his parents at home, whose health had become very fragile. Investigations are continuing. They were entrusted to investigators from the SDPJ 92.