A phys ed teacher killed his ex-girlfriend and then himself in Marseille after she announced she was leaving him. Their young daughter in the next room was unharmed.

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Man kills ex over new love, then himself

A phys ed teacher killed his ex-girlfriend and then himself in Marseille after she announced she was leaving him. Their young daughter in the next room was unharmed.

Published: 5 July 2011 11:41 CEST

The murder-suicide occurred on Sunday night, according to police, when the 59-year-old teacher arrived at the residence of his ex-girlfriend, who was having dinner with her new partner and another male friend.

Armed with a .22 caliber rifle, the teacher forced the two men to leave, and then shot his former partner, and the mother of their two-year-old daughter, in the chest, killing her instantly.

The man then turned the rifle on himself, shooting himself in the head.

The woman, 35 years old and also a teacher by profession, had recently broken up with him, saying she was starting a new life with another man.

Their child was found in one of the rooms of the residence, despondent but unharmed.

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French police search for gunmen after shootings in Paris suburb

Two men were shot dead near a cultural centre in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb, to the northeast of the French capital on Sunday evening, less than 48 hours after another fatal shooting nearby, according to authorities.

The victims of Sunday’s shooting were aged 35 and 31 and known for violence and drug trafficking, according to police sources.

One was shot in the head, with two suspects fleeing on foot, leaving the magazine of an automatic weapon and 18 spent bullet casings behind them.

The second man was hit six times.

The town of 52,000 people was on edge, mayor Stephane Blanchet told AFP, saying people were living in fear of another shooting.

“There is a huge feeling of fear, that it could start again and [that someone could be hit by] a stray bullet,” Blanchet said.

“If it had been a beautiful sunny day, there would have been more people outside,” when the latest shooting happened, he said.

In the first shooting, a 28-year-old man was killed on a nearby housing estate early on Saturday, with three others wounded.

In March, French President Emmanuel Macron announced an ‘XXL’ cleanup of drug trafficking in the southern port city of Marseille and other towns across France, including Sevran, where the drugs trade has been blamed for a spate of death and violence.

One drug dealing hotspot in Sevran was ‘eradicated’ in that operation, police said.

“We are aware that when we do that, we destabilise traffic, we create greed and sometimes there are clashes,” Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said on Sunday.

“But we will still continue,” he added.

Local La France insoumise MP Clementine Autain accused the government of abandoning some areas, and said the suburb, “did not have the police presence of other areas”.

Drug-related violence has often flared in Sevran – considered a hub of drug trafficking in France – with the then-mayor calling for UN peacekeepers to be deployed there in 2011.

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