Psychoanalyst kills ex-partner in Yonne before suicide in Paris, Digi Mart USA News (Brosses, Yonne, France): A psychoanalyst shot and killed his former partner at her home in Brosses, in the Yonne department of France, before taking his own life at his office in Paris, according to concordant sources reported Monday, November 9, 2026.
Around 7:45 p.m. Sunday, the 65-year-old man entered the home of his former partner, 56, and fired his weapon, the Auxerre prosecutor, Marie-Denise Pichonnier, told AFP.
Emergency services could only confirm the victim’s death.
The Avallon research brigade in Yonne located the fleeing man through his phone and traced him to his office in Paris, a source close to the case said. The Brigade de recherche et d’intervention went to the scene and, around 5:00 a.m.
Monday, found the man’s lifeless body, a police source said.
According to the Auxerre prosecutor’s office, he appears to have died by suicide. The couple had a daughter, born in 2007, who has been taken in by a relative.
In 2025, 111 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in France, a 4% increase over one year, according to the latest data available from the Ministry of the Interior.
