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A drama played out in the early morning this Saturday in Montjoire, a town located in the northeast of Haute-Garonne. Armed with a hunting rifle, a man shot and killed his 70-year-old niece before committing suicide. The Toulouse public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation.
“I just spoke with the nurse who came by every day. She was there again this morning at 7 o'clock. Like all of us, she is shocked and devastated.” Isabelle Gousmar, the mayor of Montjoire, hides neither her shock nor her pain.
This morning a tragedy occurred in an isolated house in his town, 20 kilometers northeast of Toulouse. A septuagenarian opened fire on a member of his family before killing himself a few minutes later. Alerted, the emergency services were unable to do anything. The gendarmes from the Saint-Michel company intervened. The deputy prosecutor on duty at the Toulouse public prosecutor's office traveled to the scene of the tragedy.
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“We have opened an investigation to understand what appears to be a murder followed by suicide. The investigations, entrusted to the gendarmerie, are beginning. It is too early to put forward the reasons for this tragedy,” specifies the duty magistrate.
The victim, niece of the man who opened fire, was 70 years old. She was treating a serious illness. “A very discreet, very kind woman,” according to the mayor of the town. The perpetrator of the shots would be 76 years old and lived a few kilometers away, in a town on the other side of the Tarn.
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