The story is barely believable. In the Gard, an investigation for the purposes of “search for causes of death” was opened after a surreal discovery in the thorax of a corpse.
While treating a body with a view to its burial, the employee of a funeral home in Vigan, near the Cévennes, noted the presence of a foreign body in the thorax of the deceased. It was in facta 33 centimeter knife, deeply lodged in the thoracic cage.
“Its needle came up against an obstacle”
“During the funeral toilet, the funeral home employee who was preparing the body saw his needle hit an obstacle. A 33 centimeter knife was lodged in the thorax, buried up to the handle, invisible from the outsideand whose blade was placed at the height of the heart, revealed the Alès prosecutor, Abdelkrimi Grini, confirming information from Objectif Gard. Without this care, the knife would probably never have been spotted. In 28 years of experience, I have never seen such a situation.” he continued.
Although the forensic doctor who examined the body concluded that it was suicide, the Marseille prosecutor's office ordered the opening of an investigation. An autopsy will therefore be carried out this Monday, December 2 at the Nîmes Medico-Legal Institute, in order to determine whether the man killed himself or whether there was intervention by a third party.
The investigation will have to determine whether there was suicide or murder.
The body of the deceased, a 54-year-old man, was found at the beginning of the week in the grounds of a clinic in Bouches-du-Rhône. He was treated there for psychological suffering. “A box cutter was discovered next to him, as well as letters written in which he indicated that he would end his life, said the prosecutor. No trace of a struggle was also detected. The doctor noted the suicide, since a priori, everything converged towards this thesis.”
Everything led to believe that the fifty-year-old had ended his life, but the presence of this knife deeply buried in the chest of the deceased is confusing. What if there had finally been murder? For now, the mystery remains.
