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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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.
In a state of advanced decomposition, the body was spotted at the Quai de Charenton, about eight kilometres from the place where four corpses were discovered on 13 August, the prosecutor's office reported this Wednesday, 27 August.
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