After the discovery of two bodies in Bitburg, the investigators assume a crime with subsequent suicide by the perpetrator.
According to the findings so far, it is likely that a 65-year-old man first shot his 50-year-old ex-wife and then himself, the Trier public prosecutor said on Thursday.
"There is no evidence of the involvement of a third person."
Bitburg - The motive for the act is so far unclear.
A witness had alerted the police on Wednesday evening and said that he had discovered a dead woman in front of a family house.
The called officers then searched the rest of the property and found the man's body, which had a gunshot wound.
There was a pistol next to it.
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The French citizen and the German were divorced.
The woman moved out of the common house after the divorce and lived in the immediate vicinity.
The corpses of the two are now to be examined by forensic medicine.
“The investigations into both the course of events and the background to the crime are ongoing,” the Trier public prosecutor said.
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