Toulouse. Alarming text messages, two deaths, pool of blood in the kitchen… What we know about the tragedy

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A tragic scene. When the police entered this two-story residence in Roseraie districtin Toulouse, Monday December 2, 2024, at the beginning of the afternoon, it was already too late. Two bodies lay inert. Those of a man and a young woman. Update on the investigation.

#1. The alert

It was relatives of one of the victims who alerted the police: this Monday afternoon, they had just receive very alarming text messages on the part of the31 year old man.

“He said he had just killed his ex-partner and that he was going to end his life,” whispers a source ofToulouse News. Au your panicked from their interlocutors, the police took the matter very seriously. They have geolocated the cell phone of the thirty-year-old who lived in the Roseraie apartment. “It was his, the young woman lived nearby.”

Pool of blood in the kitchen

A police patrol arrived on the scene. “The door was locked from the inside. They had to break a window to enter the apartment. Unfortunately, it was already too late. The two bodies were lying in the kitchen “in a pool of blood”.

According to our sources, the woman was hit on the neck several times with a sharp weapon (knife? screwdriver? cutter?). The man also had wounds “that he was apparently self-inflicted”.

#2. The victims

What relationships did the31 year old man and the 23 year old womanfound dead? The two “formed a couple” until recently. But everyone had kept their apartment.

“It’s not a clean or traditional breakup” when one has to move and get rid of their boxes immediately, deciphers a source.Toulouse News.

“They continued to see each other”

According to the first elements of the investigation, “no real dispute” did not seem to exist, apparently, between the victims. “Although separated, they continued to see each other,” says one of our sources. They even lived a ten minute walk from each other.

However, investigators are examining the complaint registers and handrails to detect possible warning signs of tragedy. Why had these former lovers broken up? Since when and under what circumstances? This is what the investigators are trying to define.

#3. The tracks

Given the circumstances – the sending of explicit SMS – and the first findings carried out on site, investigators are leaning towards murder (femicide) followed by a suicide. Drama of a poorly digested separation?

It is still necessary, to ensure it, exclude third party intervention at all levels. Be certain that it is indeed the man, by his hand and without constraint, who sent the famous “alarming SMS” to his loved ones. And that it is not any “disguised” revenge against the couple. The investigation of the DCT (Territorial Crime Division) seems a thousand miles from taking this route.

#4. And now ?

According to our information, a autopsy must be practiced on Thursday December 4, 2024, atforensic institute of Toulouse to establish the exact causes of the victims' deaths. Why was the woman there that day in his ex's apartment? Had she been invited there? Did the tenant of the premises premeditate his action or was it an argument that escalated?

If the most probable hypothesis – murder of the woman, followed by suicide of the man – is confirmed in view of the conclusions of the forensic doctor, the public action will automatically end. In the absence of an author to prosecute, no trial is not provided for by law. One more ordeal for bereaved families.

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