Orne: a couple found dead the day after Christmas, the trail of a marital murder followed by a privileged suicide

The bodies of a man and a woman were found on December 26, in a pavilion in Valframbert, near Alençon, in the Orne, reports a police source to

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The track of a spousal murder followed by a suicide is considered by the investigators.

On the day after Christmas, several Rouen scientific police cars are parked in front of the Normandy home of this retired couple in their sixties.

They were alerted in the morning, around 10:30 a.m., by relatives, worried about not having any more news.

When the police enter the home, they discover two bodies, that of a woman, probably killed by several stab wounds, then of a man, visibly hanged in the garage.

The couple were going through a divorce.

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The perimeter of the pavilion was immediately cordoned off and the police remained on the spot all afternoon.

The prosecution has since opened an investigation, entrusted to the Alençon police station and should communicate on the file during the day on Tuesday.