An investigation for homicide was opened concerning one of the four bodies found in the Seine at the height of Choisy-le-Roi (Val-de-Marne) after autopsies made on Thursday, said, Friday, August 15, the Créteil prosecution at the France-Presse agency, confirming information from the newspaper The Parisian.
“Regarding one of the four bodies, a procedure for voluntary homicide was entrusted to the criminal brigade”declares the prosecution, without specifying the way in which the person may have been killed. Regarding the other three bodies found on Wednesday, the investigation continues “In search of the causes of death” And remains entrusted to the Choisy-le-Roi police station. “No formal identification has been established for anyone”adds the same source.
According to her, if a police source had argued that three of the bodies were to “African type”it is impossible to determine it for the moment due to the damage caused by a longer immersion than for the fourth body.
Around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Paris firefighters intervened not far from the Choisy bridge, which connects this southern Parisian suburban city in Créteil. The alert had been given shortly before by a passenger traveling in the RER C, who said he saw a body floating in the Seine, according to the first elements of the investigation.
Taking the firefighters’s relay, the local police and then those of the river brigade discovered the bodies in the river: a submerged, a floating on the edge of the quay, a third trapped in branches and a last carried away by the current.
