In the city of Corrèze, a street near the Henri-Laborit psychiatric center was closed off on January 16. Investigations carried out by the police have uncovered new human bones, after a first macabre discovery four days earlier. The skeleton has not been identified. A homicide investigation is open.
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The surroundings of the psychiatric center of Brive hospital are closed this Thursday, January 16. On site, scientific experts and the Limoges judicial police are carrying out investigations after the discovery of bones near the Henri-Laborit center, information revealed by our colleagues from Populaire du Center.
On site, scientific experts and the judicial police are carrying out investigations after the discovery of bones near the Henri-Laborit psychiatric center.
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© Mustapha Abbas – France 3 Limousin – France Télévisions
According to the first elements available to us, the “human bones”, have were discovered on Sunday January 12, on land behind the center, by two security agents, after two ponies escaped. “It was a security agent who called the Brive la Gaillarde police station. While recovering runaway ponies, he discovered a shoe with a sock and bones inside. On site, two tibias, a femur, the bones of two feet as well as two size 42 sports shoes were subsequently discovered by the police.“, specified the public prosecutor of Brive, Florence Leroux-Ghristi in a press conference.
The anthropologist from the Limoges forensic institute indicated, after examining them, that these are “human bones which could date back around three years, without any certainty“, added the prosecutor.
-According to the first elements available to us, the “human bones” mentioned in the press release from the Brive public prosecutor's office this Thursday evening were discovered on Sunday January 12, on land located behind the center, by two security agents, after that two ponies escaped.
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© Mustapha Abbas – France 3 Limousin – France Télévisions
As part of the initial findings, it was observed that the land located upstream of the site of the macabre discovery had been the subject of a landslide last December. Sanitation work was then carried out in this area.
The search operations organized this Thursday, January 16 led to the discovery “other skeletal parts, including the intact skull“, revealed the public prosecutor of Brive.
The forensic team on site indicated that it could be “of a rather young man“, without further details.
In a backpack found nearby, investigators discovered books and personal effects, but nothing allowing the skeleton to be identified.
The preliminary investigation for homicide, entrusted to the Departmental Directorate of the Judicial Police of Haute-Vienne, will now focus “the identification of the body, the dating of the death and the determination of its causes“, indicated Florence Leroux-Ghristi.
The first results of analysis of the bones and DNA research should be known during the next week.
