The 20-year-old Maëva Gazé, who worked as a caretaker, had told her mother on Wednesday around noon that she would go shopping in the Action of Pont-L’évêque, a large municipality of Calvados in the French department of Calvados . In the following hours her mother tried to call Maëva, but her daughter didn’t record anymore.
Because it also stopped on Thursday, an investigation was opened on the worrying disappearance of Maëva. Research that was also expanded not much later with the also worrying disappearance of her boyfriend, 20-year-old Martin Delamare. He was no longer a trace since Wednesday. (Read more under the photo)
“Never got into the Action”
Not much later, the police found the Maëva car in Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, a village about ten kilometers from Trouville-sur-Mer, where the young couple lived. Her handbag was still in the car, groceries were not found. “She probably never got into the Action,” her mother testifies to local newspaper Ouest France.
In a garbage bin in the immediate vicinity of the car, the investigators found three mobile phones and also the dog of Maëva and Martin, who was also missing, was found in the neighborhood.
-The search was expanded and a few hours later the lifeless bodies of Maëva and Martin were found in the garden of a private home. They were both shot and Martin clearly had some blows in the face. It soon became clear that the perpetrator had buried them in the garden with the help of an excavator.
A large-scale manhunt was immediately started to the perpetrator and in the night from Friday to Saturday a suspect could be intercepted by the air and border police in Calais. The man, a thirties, was drunk at the time of the facts.
Drunk
The suspect had first tried to escape from the police, but had lost control of his vehicle and bumped into a wall, after which the officers could grasp him. The man was taken seriously injured to the hospital, where he was placed in custody. “As soon as his health status permits, he will appear before the investigating judge,” said the responsible magistrate.
The autopsy of Martin now confirmed that the young man had died of the consequences of a gunshot, the autopsy of Maëva will take place early next week. The Caen public prosecutor’s office stated that he did not yet know about the possible motive of the perpetrator. “No hypothesis is excluded,” it was said on Thursday.
