It was a terrible discovery that a jogger made early in the afternoon, this Monday, December 30, on the banks of the Roanne canal, near the Merlin pond in Mably in the north of the Loire department. .
While she was running on the greenway set up along the canal, she was intrigued by the presence of a garbage bag there. After taking a quick look and seeing a small foot or leg, she immediately contacted the police.
An investigation to “search for the causes of death”
According to information from our colleagues in Pays Roannais, the police, quickly on site, unfortunately discovered the lifeless body of a newborn female. Firefighters and a SMUR team were also on the scene.
Requested by us, the public prosecutor of Roanne, Xavier Laurent, confirmed to us all the information linked to this appalling news item and specified that “while waiting to determine whether the child was born alive and viable before to die, the investigation is carried out by the head of research into the causes of death.
An autopsy carried out this Tuesday in Saint-Étienne
The local judicial police department of Roanne was seized of the investigation and will have to try to determine the identity of this little girl, as well as the different stages of the dramatic scenario which resulted in the macabre discovery.
Long and careful investigations are looming for police officers. But as the Departmental Director of the national police in the Loire, Yves Cellier, contacted by us, points out: “It is not because it is complicated that it is impossible. »
However, investigators will have to wait for the results of the autopsy which will be carried out this Tuesday, December 31 at the North hospital center in Saint-Étienne.
