Liévin: she thought she smelled a cadaverous smell emanating from her garden and was not mistaken

It had been several days since this resident of rue Ernest-Renan, in Liévin in the Pas-de-Calais, smelled a suspicious odor coming from his garden. The smell becoming more and more tenacious, she informed the police on Friday July 22who quickly arrived on the scene and discovered that their witness had been right.

In a garage, the body of a 65-year-old man in advanced decomposition

Police searched the area to figure out where the smell was coming from. who guided the investigators to a series of garages located at the back of the witness’s garden. It was in one of them that they made the macabre discovery: a body in an advanced state of decomposition. Impossible to identify the victim, until they discover the presence of identity papers. He is a 65-year-old man, whom no one had declared missing so far. He would have died in his own garage, according to the first elements of the investigation. Probably a neighbor of the witness who warned the emergency services.

an autopsy must be carried out this week on the victim at the forensic institute in order to understand the circumstances of the death, even if according to Ouest France and La Voix du Nord, the investigators would lean for the moment for the hypothesis of a death of natural cause. This case, which occurred in the city center of Liévin, yet rather quiet, did not fail to move the population. It comes days before an octogenarian was found dead in her own freezer in Aude, near Carcassonne, on July 24. Summer looks deadly this year in France.