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Miscellaneous facts. Triple murder in Drôme, Ardèche and Alsace: the Nancy suspect had “no wife, no friend, he was always alone”

“He’s a man who was well-bred but rather savage, withdrawn. We are really upset by what happened, ”says an octogenarian whose apartment windows overlook the residence where Gabriel Fortin lived, rue de Saverne. Tuesday evening, two days before the events, this neighbor sees the one who today is the alleged perpetrator of a triple murder. “He was carrying several plastic bags, I thought he was going to see his mother,” she recalls. The neighbor doesn’t know much about the life of this friendless engineer. “We never saw him with anyone, no wife, no friend, he was always alone. Always well dressed, he would go out for a walk then come back at 5 pm and never go out, ”confirms a second neighbor. His relations are mainly family, with occasional visits to his mother and his brother who “works in the European offices”.

“It’s as if he doesn’t live here”

Since the departure of his mother, in the Alsatian capital, Gabriel Fortin lives in her apartment, on the second floor of a peaceful residence. The name on the mailbox has not been changed. “It’s as if he doesn’t live here, it’s rare that I see him”, relates a neighbor on the upper floors. He is also unknown to the neighborhood merchants. An optician, for example, cannot find any trace of a client with her name. His mother, on the other hand, appears in the customer register. “But she hasn’t come since 2012,” notes the shopkeeper. The suspected killer appears to have arrived in the neighborhood six or seven years earlier, upon his return from Valencia in 2013.

A ghost student

Gabriel Fortin did not mark the spirits any more at the engineering school of Metz (ENIM) where he spent six years of his life, between 1993 and 1999. “I knew him but no more than that, he was in materials specialty ”, remembers Fabrice, a former ENIM employee.

“His name really doesn’t ring a bell, was he really with us?” “Asks Bertrand. As for the alumni association, the observation is the same: “He is not a member and has never requested our services, not even to look for a job”.

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