The son-in-law of a couple shot dead in July in his Var estate was arrested and detained, after confessing the facts, AFP learned on Wednesday (November 17) from corroborating sources, but the motive remains unclear, between jealousy and money problems.
On July 3, the two sixty-year-olds were discovered dead on their property in Tourves, at the foot of Sainte-Baume, which they rented for weddings, by a caterer who came for the ceremony which was to be held in the afternoon. .
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After four months of investigation by the gendarmerie, the accused, aged 36, confessed "
in a detailed way, with details that cannot have been invented
", explained to AFP Patrice Camberou , the prosecutor of the Republic of Draguignan: "
on the other hand, the motive remains to be clarified, one oscillates between jealousy and money problem
", added the magistrate.
The trail of feminicide followed by suicide had very quickly been evacuated after the first observations on the spot.
But the hypothesis of a burglary that would have gone wrong could not be immediately ruled out, the victims' room having been searched and a small safe opened.
The daughter of the victims exonerated
48 hours after the discovery of the tragedy, "
all the guests who were to attend the wedding party
" scheduled at the estate on the day of the events had already "
been heard
", as well as "
the relatives of the victims
", had then underlined the prosecutor's office of Draguignan. Presented to an investigating judge, the son-in-law was indicted on Wednesday and placed in pre-trial detention. He was arrested Monday, at the same time as his companion, the daughter of the victims. This was exonerated.
The investigation had mobilized significant resources of the gendarmerie. "
The investigations were carried out by an investigation unit made up of investigators from the detachment of the research section in Fréjus, the Var group and experienced reservists
", thus detailed the Draguignan prosecutor's office in a press release. These investigators implemented "
very important means to explore the various possible avenues, in particular a work of modeling the crime scene
", and they benefited "
from the assistance of units specializing in surveillance and investigators from the department. behavioral sciences of the IRCGN
”, the criminal research institute of the national gendarmerie, added the Draguignan prosecutor's office.