The victims, a 32 -year -old woman and a 55 -year -old man, both taught in a college in Tarbes.
Le Monde with AFP
A man and a woman, both teachers in a college in Tarbes, were shot dead in a village in Hautes-Pyrénées, the Tarbes prosecutor’s office, which opened a double homicide in Tuesday July 5. . The alleged perpetrator “is on the run, he could not be arrested for the moment,” said the prosecutor, Pierre Aurignac. According to a source close to the investigation, a rivalry rivalry is behind the double murder. Ex-companion of the teacher in his thirties, the suspect would have arrived on a motorcycle to shoot down the two teachers of the Desaix college in Tarbes. The woman, who was 32, was found late Monday afternoon lying in a street in Pouyastruc by neighbors who alerted the gendarmes. Arrived on the spot, they also discovered a 55-year-old man, who died in his house, a few meters further, said the prosecutor.
The autopsies of the victims will be practiced in the coming days at the Toulouse Medical Institute.
The survey, for Double Homicide, was entrusted to the Tarbes research brigade and the Toulouse research section, he added. In total, a “sixty gendarmes” are mobilized to “locate as quickly as possible” the suspect, according to a gendarmerie source.
At Collège Desaix, where the victims were professor of physical education and French teacher, a psychological support unit was set up on Tuesday to welcome teachers, students and parents of students who were under the shock. The double homicide on Monday occurred while the students of 3 e celebrated the end of the school year with a ball in the establishment.
The rector of the Academy of Toulouse, Mostafa Fourar, went there, accompanied by the prefect of Hautes-Pyrénées, Rodrigue Furcy, and expressed “his very strong emotion and his immense sadness”, according to a press release .
The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, who was visiting a high school in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), also shared his “reaction of sadness and compassion for families of teachers, colleagues and students “. “For the rest, this is an awful news item, compassion and sympathy go to those who knew them,” he added.