a woman found dead in her car, her companion shot dead by the gendarmes

The gendarmes of Doubs discovered the body of a 54-year-old woman who died in a car on Friday July 23 in the spa resort of Guillon-les-Bains, reports France Bleu Besançon. They then shot dead his companion, a 39-year-old man, who was considered the prime suspect on Saturday. Found near the car, he confessed the facts before dying, indicates the public prosecutor of Besançon.

The intervention of the gendarmes started around 11 p.m., when a fireworks display ended in the town of Guillon-les-Bains. They first tried to overpower a very excited and vehement man, who was threatening the crowd with logs. The man, from a neighboring village, managed to escape the gendarmes.

Three kilometers further, the gendarmes of the surveillance and intervention platoon of the gendarmerie (Psig) of Montbéliard discovered an abandoned vehicle with broken windows and taillights. While inspecting the interior of this car, they saw in the backseat the lifeless body of a woman with a swollen face. According to the public prosecutor of Besançon, Etienne Manteaux, she suffered a multitude of “punches, but without any trace of a firearm or blunt object”. An autopsy will have to confirm this on Monday or Tuesday.

At that time, just a few meters from the car, the gendarmes spotted the fugitive, who refused to comply with the usual summons. “A gendarme uses his weapon. A single shot is fired, shortly before midnight”, explains Etienne Manteaux. Hit in the chest, the man continued to move forward before collapsing on the car, where he was received by one of the firefighters also present. He told her: “This is my wife, I beat her up.”

Urgently transported to Besançon hospital, he died of his injuries during the night. This 39-year-old man was known to the courts for a few convictions, including three months in prison for theft with violence in 2005. At home, “many bottles of alcohol have already been found”, specifies the prosecutor at France Bleu Besançon. It was considered Saturday night “as the main suspect” the death of his 54-year-old partner, “who had so far never filed a complaint or handrail for acts of domestic violence”.