The decaying body of a 39 -year -old woman discovered in her apartment in Aix

The smell as characteristic as they can have left little doubt to the emergency services, this Monday, August 4, when they entered the apartment, located in a propret and recent subdivision of the Duranne district, in the town of Aix-en-Provence. It was the firefighters who made the macabre discovery around 7:30 p.m., after having made a passage through the balcony, then fracturing the bay window of the accommodation. He was normally occupied by a 39 -year -old woman, who had not given a sign of life for several days, when his vehicle was still parked nearby.

Inside, the emergency services then the police services first noticed that the apartment was without above, before discovering the lifeless body of its occupant, obviously died for several days. A first examination of the corpse, in advanced decomposition, did not allow to advance on the causes of death.

An apartment in “very big disorder”

When examining the premises by the technicians of the scientific police, traces of blood were raised in the accommodation, and multiple samples taken. “”The apartment was really in great disorder“, notes a source close to the file. But an important detail was noted during the findings: the accommodation was closed from the interior.

According to residents interviewed by the investigators of the Aix police station, the young woman, already known to the police, exercised a prostitute activity. Still according to testimonies collected from among the neighborhood, the last signs of life in the apartment – sounds important enough to be noticed – would go back to approximately ten days ago. Murder, accident, suicide or madness? “”The circumstances push us to dig this case, but at this stage, we cannot advance more, we must wait for the autopsy results“, Simply explains the public prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence, Jean-Luc Blachon, whose prosecution has opened an investigation for the search for the causes of death.