He had taken refuge in France after fleeing the war. The body of Mykhailo, a 30-year-old Ukrainian, was discovered mummified in a wood shed of a holiday home in Fouesnant (Brittany) on August 10, reports France 3 Bretagne.
“This young man had joined his mother in May 2023. They had first gone through the Coallia association in Brest, which welcomes displaced Ukrainians in particular,” explained Claude Rocuet, the city’s general director of services, to France 3 Bretagne. “I had spoken to him the day he was welcomed to say hello, but he was mute.”
Before arriving in France, Mykhailo experienced the horror of the war in Ukraine. “He had great difficulties. He had been to the front and had come out very disturbed,” confides the mayor.
In Fouesnant, Mykhailo never found his place. At the beginning of the Russian invasion, the town welcomed Ukrainian refugees by offering them a place to sleep and eat. But the thirty-year-old “didn’t like it. He lived as a recluse,” the mayor explained to France 3 Bretagne.
The thirty-year-old had already disappeared once a few days after his arrival. He was located a month later near Pont Labbé thanks to his mobile phone, before disappearing a second time. A few days before the discovery of the mummified corpse, Mykhailo’s mother had launched a disturbing disappearance to find her son.
“No evidence of violent death”
DNA samples and the Ukrainian’s mother confirmed that the body discovered mummified in the shed of a holiday home was indeed that of Mykhailo. He had transformed this shelter into a makeshift shelter. According to the Quimper prosecutor’s office on France 3 Bretagne, “the forensic analyses would not provide any evidence of violent death or intervention by a third party.”
“It’s a tragic end,” laments Claude Rocuet. “This young man died all alone in his corner, in the deepest solitude.”
- BFMTV.com
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