???????? Moselle. The body of a man found at his home, 15 years after his disappearance

The new owners of a house in Erstroff, Moselle, made a macabre discovery while renovating the property purchased in 2023.

They found the skeleton of a man “in an outbuilding adjoining the main house”, according to Olivier Glady, public prosecutor in Sarreguemines. The bones belong to a former resident who has been missing since 2009.

A skeleton discovered under the roof of the outbuilding

According to the authorities, the remains, reduced to a skeleton, were discovered last Saturday in an inaccessible area of ​​the outbuilding. While looking for the causes of water infiltration in the roof, one of the owners inadvertently accessed this place, under the roof, where the body had been for several years. “Access to this area was almost hidden,” said prosecutor Glady.

A suicide route considered

The bones were transferred to the Strasbourg Forensic Institute for identification. Although the identity remains to be confirmed, “it is quite likely” that it is the former owner, an 81-year-old man who disappeared in 2009. At the time, several searches had been organized without success . His wife, who died in 2020, had left the house for sale.

According to the prosecutor, the scene of discovery is “suggestive of a suicide”, a rope having been found still hanging in the attic. The investigation was entrusted to the Forbach research brigade to determine the exact causes of death.

Source: Le Parisien