Two people were found dead at their home this Sunday, in the town of Bizot, in Haut-Doubs, reports France Bleu.
It is one of the daughters of the couple of septuagenarians who discovered her father hanged and her mother dead in her bed, specifies the local radio.
"Nothing suggests the intervention of a third party"
Autopsies were organized on Sunday and the Besançon prosecutor's office indicated that an investigation into the causes of the woman's death was underway, but that the criminal trail was not retained.
"Nothing suggests the intervention of a third party", said to the Republican East the magistrate of the prosecution of Besançon, Julie Fergane.
Retired farmers, the couple were well known to the inhabitants of this village of 330 souls.
“I have no idea why, it's impossible to understand.
They still had rabbits, we often saw the gentleman in the village, he was helpful, he helped his sister and his brother who are older and who still live here
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, says Marlène Renaud, resident of Bizot for more than fifty years.