REPORTAGE A mother and her daughter were found dead at their home in this town near Rennes, the body of the father was hanged
The lifeless bodies of two women and of a man were discovered in a house in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, near Rennes. Investigators suspect a double murder followed by a suicide. — C. Allain/20 Minutes
- The lifeless bodies of a 60-year-old woman and her 25-year-old daughter were discovered at their home in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande on November 23.
- Father’s body was found hanged, which suggests a double assassination, followed by a suicide.
- The day after the tragedy, the Chevrolais district is in shock from this tragedy that no one had seen come.
The awakening was painful in the small street of the Round Table this Thursday morning. It’s in this small artè Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, that a family has been found dead Wednesday, November 23. According to the first elements of the investigation, a 50-year-old man would have been killed. found hanged in his house. The lifeless bodies of his 60-year-old wife and their 25-year-old daughter were found dead. discovered in the pavilion.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, only the police seals placed on the doors and the closed shutters of the house leave a clue to the drama that has unfolded. to behind closed doors. An investigation was carried out. opened for assassinations, suggesting that the act could have been premeditated. “I don’t believe it, it’s just side from home,” slips a pensioner” who lives in this uneventful neighborhood located to two steps from Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine).
The lifeless bodies of two women and a man were found. discovered in a house in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, near Rennes. Seals have been placed on the pavilion. – C. Allain/20 Minutes
The alert had been given around 2 p.m. by the young woman’s employer. The real estate agency she worked for was worried that they hadn’t seen her at work. Mobilized, the firefighters forced door to the home and discovered the three dead bodies. That of Martial V., an agent of the Ille-et-Vilaine department working in a college, was hanged. His daughter’s was elongated. on the floor in his room, with no apparent trace of violence. As for that of the mother, a very young retiree, it was discovered lying down; on the marital bed.
“Initial forensic findings revealed that the existence of trauma on the body of the mother of the family,” revealed the parquet floor of Rennes on Wednesday evening. The family was unknown to the police. Long cordoned off by the police for the purposes of the investigation, the street reopened overnight, leaving residents in awe. “We are all in shock. What happened? is terrible, it’s unthinkable. We don’t understand”, testifies the neighbor of the missing family.
””He was a charming man”
On Wednesday, her husband was heard by the investigators to try to understand what could have happened behind the facade in beige plaster. The lead favored by the judicial police is that of a double homicide committed by the father of the family, which would have put an end to the murder. his days after the fact.
“He was a lovely, polite, helpful man. He always had a little joke. I never imagined that he can do so. Never, I would have thought; that such a tragedy could happen,” she testifies, with tears in her eyes. How was the couple? “Apparently fine, they looked happy, normal. She’s been retired for a month, it’s a tragedy.”.
The police cordoned off rue de la Table Ronde for hours on Wednesday after the discovery of three dead bodies in a pavilion in this quiet housing estate near Rennes. – C. Allain/20 Minutes
In the house, the investigators discovered a letter in which Martial V. explains his gesture. According to the public prosecutor Philippe Astruc, the suspect announces that he is ending his arrest. his days as well as those of his partner and his daughter. “He attributed his actions to malaise that could be linked to a serious illness from which he is suffering, ” health glitches.” “But nothing too serious. Or he hadn’t told us.” A handwriting comparison exam should be performed. to verify the origin of this writing.