The motorcycle of the suspect in the murder of two teachers in the French department of Hautes-Pyrénées (South-West) was found in the Spanish border region of Aragon where the police launched a manhunt, a-t- we learned on Wednesday July 6 from a source close to the investigation.
This motorcycle allowed the suspect to escape and cross the border, this source told AFP, without giving further details.
Research device is still in progress
An important search system has been in place since Tuesday morning around Jaca, a small Spanish town located about 200 km from the scene of the crime, to get hold of this man, whose identity has not been confirmed by French and Spanish authorities.
This operation “
continues today.
The search device is still in progress, it did not stop
" during the night, said a spokeswoman for the Civil Guard, who declined to give more details on the number of agents deployed or on the breadth of the search perimeter.
A man and a woman, both teachers in a college in the city of Tarbes, were shot dead Monday in the village of Pouyastruc by a suspect who is "
on the run
", the Tarbes prosecutor told AFP on Tuesday. , Pierre Aurignac, without giving details of his identity or his motivations.
The Tarbes prosecution announced the holding of a press briefing on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.
love rivalry
According to a source close to the investigation in France, a love rivalry is at the origin of this double murder.
The suspect is said to be the teacher's companion and the father of her two children.
The family lived in the small town of Barbazan-Dessus and the couple was in the process of separating.
The 32-year-old woman was found late Monday afternoon lying in a street in Pouyastruc by neighbors who alerted the gendarmes.
Arrived on the spot, they also discovered a 55-year-old man, who died in his house, a few meters away, according to the prosecutor.
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The two victims, Gabriel Fourmigué and Aurélie Pardon, were physical education and French teachers respectively.
He, originally from the Gers, was known for his sporting exploits.
He had won the world junior bobsleigh championship, before representing France at the Winter Olympics in Albertville in 1992 and those in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. The investigation was entrusted on the French side to the brigade research center in Tarbes and the research section in Toulouse.
The autopsies of the victims will be performed in the coming days at the Forensic Institute of Toulouse.
