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A 70-year-old woman was shot dead by her uncle armed with a rifle this Saturday morning in Montjoire, near Toulouse. The shooter then committed suicide. A drama, a few days before Christmas, which raises a lot of questions.
In Montjoire (Haute-Garonne), a small, discreet town on the edge of the Buzet forest, a tragedy unfolded this Saturday morning shortly before 8 a.m. A man arrived in an isolated house, slightly off Chemin de Layrac. In the house, he quickly opened fire on Anne, aged 70. The companion of this retiree, present in the room, did not have time to react to prevent the tragedy.
“She was a discreet woman who did not make people talk about her. She had gone to the town hall to convert her deceased husband's pension. Above all, she was fighting cancer with great courage. What happened is dramatic and incomprehensible”, confides Isabelle Gousmar, the mayor of Montjoire.
The shooter commits suicide
The man who held the shotgun used is not a stranger since he is the victim's uncle. A 76-year-old family member who lives a few kilometers from the scene of the tragedy, on the other side of the Tarn. A few minutes after killing his niece, he killed himself with his own gun on the path to the small house.
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The emergency services, firefighters and Smur 31 team were alerted very early by the witness of the tragedy but the Samu doctor could only note the death of two people. The man who had shared Anne's life for several months, a septuagenarian, very shocked, was taken care of by emergency services. He was not targeted by the shooter.
The gendarmes from the Union brigade community were the first to intervene. The duty investigators at the Toulouse-Saint-Michel company's research brigade were also engaged with the criminal investigation technicians. The deputy prosecutor, on duty in Toulouse, traveled to Montjoire to direct the first investigative actions.
Jealousy, inheritance, everything is possible
“A priori, we are faced with a murder followed by a suicide. The direct witness to these facts is being interviewed by the gendarmes, explains the magistrate. His testimony will necessarily be important in clarifying the circumstances of the facts. ” The autopsies of two victims are scheduled for the beginning of the week at the Purpan forensic institute.
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In the first hours of the investigation, during on-site observations by criminal investigation technicians, the motive remained incomprehensible. “It looks like a crime of passion,” say observers. But between an uncle and his niece, both in their seventies, it's hard to imagine a crazy passion.
Was the man who allegedly shot Anne jealous of this sick woman's new companion? Or a question of inheritance? The investigation will have to interview members of the family, whose discomfort and sadness we can imagine, to clarify the relationships of a family that had until then had no history.
