A police officer kills his three daughters, ages 10, 7 and 5, in France and then commits suicide

A gendarme has murdered his three minor daughters and subsequently committed suicide, in an event that has shocked France, reports Le Parisien.

According to this medium, this is an agent assigned to the air transport brigade (BGTA). The events occurred in the town of Vémars (Val-d'Oise), and apparently, the man was in the process of divorcing.

The police officer killed his three daughters, born in 2013, 2016 and 2018, the Pontoise prosecutor's office stated, in “a complicated family context.”

The bodies were found by two fellow gendarmes. The mother of the three girls, in a state of shock, was treated by emergency services, said the prosecutor's office, which did not specify whether she was at home.

We did not expect such a tragedy, especially in a small and quiet town like Vémars

The investigation was entrusted to the Versailles investigation section and the air transport investigation section.

The man lived in one of the buildings in a newly built neighborhood, located a little away from the center of this small city of 2,300 inhabitants, 12 kilometers north of the Roissy-Charles-De-Gaulle airport.

The neighborhood is made up of houses and apartments where many gendarmes live with their families, according to neighbors. In any case, this Sunday afternoon the police closed it completely, preventing access to people outside the homes.

“We did not expect such a tragedy, especially in a small, quiet town like Vémars,” said a neighbor in statements reported by Le Parisien.