South of Toulouse: a woman and her husband found dead, the thesis of privileged feminicide
By Quentin Marais
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Macabre discovery in Boudrac (Haute-Garonne), near Saint-Gaudens, Sunday April 24, 2022. A woman and her husband, in their sixties and of English origin, were found dead, in their home. The thesis of feminicide is privileged.
Alerts by friends
Near Saint-Gaudens, two English couples were friends. But when the first duo didn’t hear from the second, he worried and wanted to go and visit her, to Boudrac, to reassure himself.
The first couple then made a horrible discovery, that of “the inert body of the lady, about 65 years old, on the ground, deceased protest“, indicates, to Toulouse news, Christophe Amunzateguy, public prosecutor of Saint-Gaudens. The gendarmes are immediately called upon.
“The gendarmerie services were requested, given the state of the body, namely the blows and in particular the presence of a rope at the level of the neck. We immediately left for a crime scene. A few moments later , the gendarmes discover the presence of the body of the husband of this lady, who himself died since he is hanged in a lodging adjoining the house.
The privileged feminicide thesis
If the research section of Toulouse came in support, it is the Saint-Gaudens research brigade who is in charge of the investigation. And its first elements, according to the magistrate, “clearly suggest a feminicide. We do not have, up to this stage, the presence of a third person. This lady presents a death that is not voluntary on her part.
While the couple was ” unknown of the police and gendarmerie services, and unknown to the neighborhood as being a problem couple”, this one would have faced, still according to the prosecutor, “to financial difficulties. One would have put an end to the days of the other, before committing suicide”.
An autopsy performed on Tuesday
The autopsy of the two bodies will be carried out on Tuesday April 26, 2022 at the Toulouse Medico-Legal Institute, “to determine the exact causes of death, the exact date, and confirm the exclusion of the intervention of a third party”, adds Christophe Amunzateguy.
According to the first estimates of the medical examiner who came to see the bodies, the deaths would go up “a few days, around Thursday 21 or Friday 22. The autopsy will make it possible to be much more precise on the question”.
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