The man whose decapitated body was discovered Friday by a couple of walkers along a road in the town of Albias has been identified.
The man whose decapitated body was discovered Friday by a couple of walkers along a road in the town of Albias (Tarn) has been identified and a criminal investigation opened, AFP learned on Saturday from the prosecutor’s office in Montauban. “He is a 31-year-old man known to the courts for traffic offenses and acts of theft,” the interim public prosecutor of Montauban, Anne Gaullier, said in a statement on Saturday.
According to the magistrate, the forensic scientist dispatched to the site noted “several stab wounds in the thorax and back and put forward the hypothesis of mutilation of the mortem-carrying body”.
The head was discovered on Saturday morning “a hundred meters from the scene in a plastic bag” while “two cut forearms were found the same evening near the body,” said Ms. Gaullier in her press release. “The hypothesis of a heinous crime is privileged” by the justice which entrusted the investigation to the research section of Toulouse and the research brigade of Montauban.
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