In this house on rue Paléosol located on the Zac de la Plaine in Vitry-sur-Orne near Metz, the day of Thursday, May 13 ended dramatically for a couple in their seventies.
According to the wife, her 70-year-old husband fell in the evening and was fatally injured. Alerted, the neighbors called for help who unfortunately could not do anything. The gendarmes of the company of Thionville noted the death and a judicial investigation was opened. It is placed under the authority of the Thionville prosecutor’s office.
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Scientific investigators on site
This Friday, the investigations entrusted to the gendarmes of the Thionville research brigade and the Fameck brigade continued, with the presence on site of a criminal investigation technician.
In the late afternoon, the seals that had been placed on the front door were removed to allow investigators to search the couple’s home.
The gendarmes also carried out a neighborhood survey. In the neighborhood, “we often heard them arguing”, testifies a resident. According to the public prosecutor, it is a question of verifying whether “the lesions are compatible with the hypothesis of the accident”. He requested an autopsy to determine the exact causes of the husband’s death. It will be carried out during the day of Monday.
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