She was beautiful, attractive and distinguished. He was cold, methodical and ruthless. It is on the trail of a determined assassin that the investigators of the Paris criminal brigade have been launched since Wednesday noon. Their suspect riddled Aurélie, 43, with bullets in the apartment where she lived in Saint-Maur (Val-de-Marne). This mother of three daughters is not the only victim. Christophe, 42, with whom she was in bed, was also killed. The two victims had known each other for only eight days. The trail of a jealous partner is explored by the police.
Thursday around 11:30 am, Aurélie's mother receives a phone call from the employer of her daughter who works as an executive in a company. He has not heard from her and it is not his habit. The mother immediately goes to Aurélie's apartment, located on the ground floor of a building, in a quiet district of Saint-Maur. The front door is locked. She opens with a double and discovers the horror in the basement converted into a bedroom. Her daughter's body lies bloodied on the bed. Beside her, the corpse of a man she does not know. “They were naked. There was blood everywhere, observed a police officer. On two walls in particular and on the floor. "
Six shots
The cause of death is beyond doubt. Six casings are found in the room. "An uncertain caliber", according to a source close to the investigation. The first police officers who arrive on the scene think of a murder followed by a suicide. But that does not stick. No matter how hard they look, there are no guns in the apartment. No trace of Aurélie's phone either. It is indeed a double assassination which took place in this room. We also find blood in the sink, as if the murderer had washed his hands before leaving the apartment, taking his gun and, probably, the mother's phone.
In a very short time, thanks in particular to Aurélie's mother, investigators learned that this mother of three girls aged 7, 9 and 10 was separated from her husband. “We often saw her alone with her children,” testifies a neighbor. She was very distinguished and I even heard her speak to them in English. The husband, assures his mother-in-law, is in the United States with the children. The police are checking, and they are. It is not him.
"Maybe a jealous former partner"
What if it was Christophe who was targeted? By typing his name into the police file, investigators only find a drunken drive. Not a delinquent at all. The assassin had probably not come for him. Especially since Aurélie "was violently struck, unlike him," slips a source close to the investigation. A search took place Thursday at Christophe's home. She didn't reveal anything suspicious about her life. He would thus be a collateral victim.
Who could blame the mother of the family? “She is very sweet and smiling, insists a neighbor. It's hard to believe that a woman like her can have enemies. "The passionate track seems the most interesting to dig, advance a source close to the file. Maybe a jealous former partner. She frequented dating sites. "" She had an ex she spurned just before confinement, slips an investigator. But we should not be locked into a single hypothesis. "
