If the track is confirmed, it would be the second feminise in two days in the Var.
The lifeless bodies of two octogenarians were discovered at their home in Saint-Raphaël, we learned on Sunday from the Draguignan public prosecutor's office, which is considering the hypothesis of femicide followed by suicide.
“It appears according to the first elements of the investigation which will be confirmed that the husband was able to kill his seriously ill and bedridden wife before turning the murder weapon, a shotgun, on his person,” explained Pierre Couttenier , public prosecutor of Draguignan in a press release.
The bodies were discovered by a family member who went to their home.
The technical and scientific police findings are in progress, adds the prosecutor, who entrusted the flagrant investigation to the Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël police station and ordered an autopsy.
Already three feminicides since the start of the year
If the femicide trail is proven, it would be the fourth murder of this type in this department since the start of the year, according to France Bleu Provence.
The last one occurred two days ago, after the murder on Friday of a 64-year-old woman, stabbed to death by her 69-year-old husband in Sanary-sur-Mer.
A police team had gone to the scene for a domestic dispute shortly before the tragedy but did not arrest the husband, who killed his wife shortly after.
An administrative investigation was ordered on Saturday against these agents.
A feminicide occurs on average every three days in France.
In 2022, 118 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse, according to a report from the Ministry of the Interior.