A dead guard with a thirty-centimeter knife stuck in his chest, the doctor had not seen the knife

It's a barely believable story, revealed this Friday by our colleagues at Objectif Gard. A doctor concludes that a 54-year-old Gardois man who died at the beginning of the week in a clinic in Aubagne, in Bouches-du-Rhône, died of natural causes. This appears to be suicide. Except that when the body was returned to the family near Vigan (Gard) two days later, at the time of the mortuary toilet, a funeral director discovers a planted knife in the thorax of the fifty-year-old.

The doctor who came to note the death did not notice the presence of a 33 cm long knife. In his defense, it was buried all the way to the end of the handle and did not appear at first glance in the chest region of the fifty-year-old.

Enough to raise questions about the causes of death, which led to the opening of an investigation and a request for an autopsy of the corpse which will be carried out this Monday in Nîmes as specified by the public prosecutor of Alès Abdelkrim Grini. “An autopsy is necessary. Depending on the conclusions of the autopsy, if the theory of suicide is confirmed, the procedure will stop there. But if the thesis of third party interventionand therefore a possible criminal trail, were to emerge, the investigation would be entrusted to the Marseille prosecutor's office, since the facts occurred in Aubagne.

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