Toulouse: Young woman killed on the ring road, accident or suicide?
The police are trying to understand what happened before the fall of a 23-year-old young woman, who was found on the device on Saturday. Did she want to leave the car?
“I saw him at the last moment, maybe 10 meters away, or less. The person next to me screamed! Something chose to roll on the pavement. I swung the steering wheel to the left, but I hit it anyway…” On Saturday around 1:30 a.m., this driver was returning home when, suddenly, she saw the young woman in the middle of the ring road. “We have just passed the Total station, probably after the radar. At this place, at night, the roads are not lit… When I saw him, it was too late”.
Once parked on the side, this Toulouse gave the alert. At least three other vehicles were unable to avoid the victim’s body. And when help arrived, first police officers from the anti-crime brigade on patrol in the area, then the firefighters and the medical team of Smur 31, the sequence of resuscitation gestures did not save the victim. 23 years old.
An autopsy requested by the prosecution
She had fallen out of a car. Voluntarily? The departmental security investigators are trying to determine it. The victim’s companion, driving during the tragedy, quickly stopped. “I saw him arrive totally distraught, in panic,” confides the witness.
Very shocked, this man was taken into custody on Saturday. This measure which was lifted by the package on Saturday evening. This career soldier was heard again yesterday by the investigation service. Tells him that the young woman opened the door herself. A hypothesis that the investigators do not rule out. “When driving at 90 km/h opening a passenger door seems complicated,” observes a policeman.
Under the authority of the prosecution, the investigations are continuing. “An autopsy will be performed on the victim on Monday,” said the prosecution. This examination will also make it possible to check whether the young woman had consumed alcohol or narcotics in the hours which transmitted her death. His companion tested positive for cocaine but the drug intake did not take place on Friday evening.