The alleged assassin of two women and a five-year-old girl, Sunday in Saône-et-Loire, was known for an act of domestic violence, said Tuesday the prosecutor of Chalon-sur-Saône, Patrice Guigon.
Jonathan Cune, 38, who committed suicide at the end of the events, “has never been convicted for acts of domestic violence but he has been the subject of alternative measures to prosecution” for acts of this type on October 6, 2019, said Patrice Guigon during a press conference.
The 30-year-old was then heard by the gendarmes following a report from his companion, one of the three victims.
She had at the time reported a jostling and shouting, but without wanting to file a complaint.
His companion then had to complete an awareness course on domestic violence.
No prosecution had been launched.
Since then, no other fact of this type has been brought to the attention of the police, said the prosecutor.
The second victim was his secretary
Director of a driving school in Chalon-sur-Saône, the alleged perpetrator had had a daughter with his partner, aged 5 at the time of the events.
But the couple had been separated since the end of 2021, the mother of the 33-year-old girl having left the family home, the same source said.
On Sunday, the father had custody of his daughter, whom the mother had come to fetch at the end of the afternoon.
It was then that the father probably killed them, with “several stab wounds (…) rather of a dagger type than a kitchen knife”, according to the prosecutor.
He then made an appointment with the secretary of his driving school, around 6:30 p.m. in the parking lot of a shopping center in Saint-Rémy, in the suburbs of Chalon.
The latter was found in her vehicle, killed by “a single stab wound”, according to Patrice Guigon.
The prosecutor did not want to comment on the links between this secretary and her boss, indicating only that “research that could shed light on the nature of their relationship” was continuing.
Contacted, the secretary's father formally denied that she had an affair with her boss.
The secretary and the ex-companion of the boss "knew each other", only indicated the prosecutor.
Did he jump off the bridge?
The alleged perpetrator, the only suspect, then took the road to Haute-Savoie, for an unknown reason.
His vehicle was found overnight from Sunday to Monday not far from the Caille bridge, nicknamed the “suicide bridge”.
His body, found in the gorges below, in which about fifteen suicides per year plunge, was identified on Monday.
He “most likely jumped off the bridge,” according to the prosecutor.