A couple in their fifties was found dead this Saturday at the end of the afternoon at his home in Marseille, killed by guns, we learned from a police source.
The two victims were found at their home, in the 13th arrondissement, in the northern districts of the city.
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The exact circumstances
" of this tragedy are still unknown, admitted to AFP the duty commissioner at the Departmental Directorate of Public Security of Bouches-du-Rhône.
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But it is probably the husband who first killed his wife and killed himself afterwards,
" said the policeman, thus evoking the thesis of a feminicide followed by a suicide.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, 146 women were victims of feminicides, that is to say killed by their spouse or ex-spouse, in 2019, and 102 in 2020.