The macabre discovery happened in two stages and over 24 hours. Sunday afternoon in Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire), a walker notices what appears to be a body in a gutter, along an avenue shaped like a ring road. The police and firefighters dispatched to the scene quickly realized the surprising evidence: there was only half a body in the water. Namely the lower part, from the abdomen to the feet. Half of a decomposing human body, which proves that the death is not recent.
As we find ourselves right under the Saint-Eugène cemetery, we imagine scenarios linked to this place, including the hypothesis, although unlikely, that this part of the body could have been brought in by water, as a result of heavy rainfall. since the start of the year. Bones have in fact already been found, coming from tombs that had not stood the test of time.
Hypotheses and questions. In particular on the absence of worrying disappearances reported this year in the department, with the exception of a man in the Montceau-les-Mines sector. But without any correspondence with the half-body found on Sunday, with jeans and sneakers.
On Monday afternoon, further research revealed the upper part of the body, with the head, buried in mud. The body was whole, and so was the mystery. Because there remain several important questions, including the main one: who is this stranger? This Monday, no one came forward to the police. When did you die? But also: how could this body cut in two have been abandoned in this place, at the side of a rather busy road?
An autopsy must take place this Tuesday in Dijon (Côte-d'Or). Investigators and the Chalon-sur-Saône public prosecutor's office are hoping for possible answers thanks to the DNA of this unknown person. Above all, they are waiting to know what caused his death and when it could occur. For the upper part of the body, including the head and skull, only bones were found.
While waiting for initial progress, the area has been combed through by investigators from the judicial police and by police officers from Le Creusot, looking for the slightest clue in an area which has not only suffered heavy rains, but also snow. .
