UPDATED: Who? How ? Why here? The discovery on Sunday afternoon of half of a decomposing body, in the gutter bordering Avenue de Montvaltin, under the Saint-Eugène cemetery, raises many questions. Investigators and justice expect a lot from the autopsy and DNA.
Finding the remains of a person in the ditch of a gutter is rather rare. And it is even rarer that the discovery concerns not the body of a person, but half a body.
However, this is what a walker saw on Sunday afternoon, while he was walking along avenue de Montvaltin in Le Creusot, as creusot-infos revealed on Sunday. And as we specified, the Police were immediately notified and very quickly the investigators, under the direction of Divisional Commander Arnaud Plantard, and his deputy, Captain Valérie Chabanis, quickly realized that this was not the case. It's not a body that was in the water of the gutter, but half a body.
No head, no arms…
A half-body bringing together the abdomen and legs. A half-body who, according to our information, was dressed in jeans, with sneakers on his feet.
An intriguing presence to say the least… the whole thing, in a state of decomposition, would not correspond to the profile of a man who disappeared in the mining country several months ago.
In the presence of the Deputy Public Prosecutor of Chalon sur Saône, who visited the site, and investigators from the Judicial Police, as well as the Technical and Scientific Police, divers from Mâcon, Chalon sur Saône, de Montceau les Mines and du Creusot, carried out excavations in the channel. Searches which did not make it possible to find the victim's arms and head, nor his trunk.
All investigations were carried out in the presence of a forensic doctor from Dijon who, by Tuesday, will carry out an autopsy on the remains of the half-body found.
This will include being able to determine how the body could have been dislocated in two. Which will obviously be essential for the continuation of the investigation.
In any case, we seem to be heading towards a criminal investigation, because it seems very unlikely that the half body found came from the Saint-Eugène cemetery, even if it is just above the gutter. And even if, it is important to emphasize, it has happened in the past and particularly in the 1980s, that human remains have reached the gutter, as did Bernard Coin, who launched the Creusot crematist association. , indicated this during a press briefing in the mid-eighties.
Waiting for DNA
The real questions that have been asked since Sunday afternoon are, first of all, who? Then why? And how?
For the first question it is clear that the investigators expect a lot from the DNA. Then we will have to determine why the body – apparently of a man, but there is no certainty – was found cut in two. And then how could this half-body end up on the side of a busy road?
In a previous case, in 1989, which saw a taxi driver beheaded, the body was found in Saint-Pierre de Varennes, in a path; And head into a wood, in Couchois. The places were isolated.
There, Avenue de Montvaltin, we are on a very important traffic route, which adds to the mystery.
If this is a criminal matter – which it could be – it is chilling. As we have written, there has been no worrying disappearance in Saône et Loire in recent months, corresponding to the remains of the body found this Sunday, December 1st.
Which would mean that this half-body would have voluntarily been brought here, to the borders of the communes of Creusot and Breuil. Who ? By whom? How ? For what ? Why here? Questions which unfortunately risk remaining unanswered for some time.
Alain BOLLERY
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Our first article (/12 at 8:20 p.m.)
This is a matter in which the greatest caution should be exercised. According to information brought to the attention of creusot-infos, this Sunday, December 1, in the middle of the afternoon, a walker who was walking along Avenue de Montvaltin in Le Creusot discovered human remains in the ditch. The discovery took place under the Saint-Eugène cemetery.
He immediately informed the Le Creusot police station and a major system was deployed, under the direction of Divisional Commander Arnaud Plantard.
The Scientific Police were obviously mobilized. Sunday evening, investigations were still underway to try to determine whether this macabre discovery could be linked to a criminal case. The Judicial Police were dispatched to the scene.
