The body of a man was discovered this Saturday April 22 in the Doubs after two men spotted a hand protruding from the ground. An investigation was opened and the gendarmes froze the scene.
A vision worthy of a horror movie. Two people discovered the body of a man in a field in Thoraise, near Besançon in the Doubs, spotting his hand protruding from the ground this Saturday, April 22, the Besançon prosecutor’s office told AFP. The field in which the man was found is difficult to access, with no motorable road to access it. The two men at the origin of this macabre discovery are affouagistes, that is to say that they participate in the silvicultural management of the communal forest.
warned, the gendarmes then froze the scene. The man will be autopsied on Monday and this autopsy should provide some clues for the rest of the investigation, including the identity and cause of death. The criminal trail is already being considered since the body, in a state of decomposition when it was discovered, was carefully buried. “The body was discovered around 10:40 a.m. by people who saw a hand sticking out of the ground”revealed Alexandra Chaumet, deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Besançon.
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The latter specified that an investigation had been opened for the discovery of a corpse and entrusted to the gendarmes. The magistrate also clarified thatthere were no elements to identify the body. “He was buried deep enough, I wouldn’t be surprised if an animal partly dug him up”, revealed the mayor of the town to France Bleu. Would this survey join that of March 9? Indeed, on that date, the charred body of a 26-year-old man had been discovered in a wood in Thise. He was accompanied by another 21-year-old young man at the time of his disappearance, but the latter is still not found. A worrying situation which had prompted the public prosecutor, Étienne Manteaux, to widen the investigation to facts of possible kidnapping. Could the body discovered this Saturday April 22 be that of the 21-year-old young man? The survey should answer all these questions. For the public prosecutor, the first case was probably related to drug trafficking, as he revealed in a press conference on March 13.