This Tuesday, January 17, a plumber made a macabre discovery after being called for clogged toilets. By sawing the pipe, the maintenance agent found pieces of human body. An investigation has been opened and a suspect has been arrested.
An intervention that turns into a nightmare. One plumber was called, this Tuesday evening, January 17, in order to unclog a drain in Saint-Priest, near Lyons, in the Rhône department. On the spot, in the pipe in question, the man fell on human remains. As explained The Parisianit all started a little earlier in the evening when a resident of the ground floor of a building located at 6, rue de l’Industrie, no longer able to use his toilet since the day before, called the breakdown company Servimo.
One of the company’s maintenance personnel, who was dispatched to the given address, had to cut out the clogged pipe during his intervention. It was then that he made an astonishing discovery: once the pipe had been sawn off, he extracted clothes and then severed human body parts, including hands, a foot and pieces of fleshaccording to the website Actu.fr. He then immediately informed the owner of the building as well as his employer, who then informed the authorities. “Around 11:40 p.m., the police services were required to intervene in the town of Saint-Priest. […] The alert was given by the company responsible for unclogging these pipes at the request of the owner of the building.indeed explained the parquet floor of Lyon.
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The victim formally identified in the coming days
The police, who went on site to see the macabre find, carried out various surveys. They also found an electric saw in a trash can not far from the entrance of the building. The Lyon prosecutor’s office then quickly opened an investigation for intentional homicide and the investigations were entrusted to the zonal direction of the judicial police (DZPJ) South-East. According to a source close to the investigation, who spoke to TF1-LCIit could be a sequestration before homicide and dismemberment, given the traces of ties present on the wrists of the victim.
According to information from Parisian, a suspect was arrested and taken into custody this Wednesday, January 18. The individual, who must undergo a psychiatric expertise, would be part of the entourage of the victim, whose identity should be formally confirmed by DNA or genetic fingerprints in the coming days. It could be17-year-old woman missing and recently declared a runaway. For the moment, the track of a murder without a motive linked to organized crime is favored by the investigators. A resident of the building also assured them that he had heard screams, last Sunday, in one of the apartments. It is not known at this time whether they are related to the case or not.