Dramatic scene this Saturday, February 17 in Étiolles (Essonne), on the banks of the Seine.
The body of a woman was discovered in a charred car late in the afternoon.
A police investigation is underway.
It was a little after 5:30 p.m. when the 91 firefighters were alerted.
A vehicle fire has just been reported in the parking lot of a restaurant in Étiolles, along the RD 448. When emergency services arrive on the scene, the car is completely engulfed in flames.
A lance is activated to control the disaster.
Husband and son heard
It was then that the macabre discovery was made.
In the charred vehicle lies the body of a woman.
His death was quickly declared.
She was 57 years old, according to initial findings.
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Nearby, two men are present.
They are the victim's husband and son.
Both unharmed, they were heard by the gendarmerie teams who intervened in the parking lot.
According to their testimony, the fifty-year-old made suicidal comments via message just before the tragedy.
The preferred avenue at this time would therefore be that of a desperate gesture by the mother, by fire and in her vehicle.
To confirm or not this hypothesis, “an investigation was opened to research the causes of death”, specifies the Évry-Courcouronnes public prosecutor's office, which ordered an autopsy.
At the end of the day, Saturday, criminal identification technicians carried out identification of clues around the vehicle for the purposes of the investigation, entrusted to the gendarmerie.