US EditionFrench officials find fifth body in River Seine outside Paris
A homeless man is charged with serial murders of four men found in the Seine, while a fifth body discovered nearby shows no connection to the case, officials said.
- On Aug 27, the local prosecutor's office said officials fished a man's body from the River Seine near Charenton-le-Pont, with no link established to four bodies recovered upriver near Choisy-le-Roi.
- French police detained a homeless man in his 20s earlier this week on suspicion in four deaths near Choisy-le-Roi on Aug 13; prosecutors mis en examen him and he is in pre-trial detention.
- Authorities identified several victims including Abdellah, 21-year-old Algerian national; two of four victims and the suspect were homeless, with one young victim undocumented and linked to a nearby squat.
- Investigators are now treating the Paris Criminal Investigation Department's inquiry into a homophobic serial killer hypothesis seriously, while Stop Homophobie charity files a civil suit and calls for witnesses, and the suspect has `refused to comment` in police interviews.
- Officials say they are still seeking to determine the cause of death while at least two victims showed strangulation signs near a known cruising spot near Choisy-le-Roi, raising concern for vulnerable groups including homeless and undocumented people.
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Same river, same city, a few hours of difference. Tens of thousands of Parisians have submerged this Thursday in the Seine to compete for a race shortly after the authorities discovered a fifth corpse on the river outside the French capital. This discovery comes two weeks after the recovery of four bodies without life in the same area in what looks like a serial crime for which a suspect has already been arrested. The body was recovered this Tue…
French river police have found another lifeless body in the Seine, near the town of Choisy-le-Roi, near the southeastern suburbs of Paris, after four bodies were discovered in the same place in early August.
A lifeless body was found, this Wednesday, in the Seine, in Charenton-le-Pont, in the neighbouring commune of Choisy-le-Roi, where four bodies had been discovered on August 13.
The body of a man was discovered this Tuesday in the Seine at Charenton-le-Pont in the Val-de-Marne. The city police station is seized of the investigation.
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