White roses were placed where Victorine's body was found on Monday afternoon.

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Mr. Allili / Sipa

The first visual examination, carried out by the forensic pathologist, had not made it possible to determine the causes of the death of Victorine, whose body had been found Monday afternoon in a stream in Villefontaine (Isère).

No more than the findings made from the scanner.

The autopsy carried out this Wednesday morning, however, revealed that the young woman had been killed by drowning "with the intervention of a third party".

"Multiple internal bruises" were found on the body of the victim, specifies Boris Duffau, deputy prosecutor of Grenoble.

However, no trace of sexual violence was observed.

"It is not, however, possible to rule out this hypothesis at this stage of the investigation", continues the magistrate.

Dead two kilometers from home

Victorine, 18, a BTS student at the Condorcet high school in Saint-Priest, had been missing since Saturday evening.

The young woman called her parents around 7 p.m. to let them know that she was coming home.

She was getting ready to walk the last two kilometers from home after missing her bus.

Before she left her friends, she was spotted one last time towards the CCTV cameras located near the prairie stadium.

That is to say close to where she was to take her bus.

Two and a half hours later, her parents had alerted the gendarmerie, worrying not to see her return and not being able to reach her.

Forty-seven investigators from the research section of the Grenoble gendarmerie are mobilized on the case, "in particular to carry out a neighborhood investigation and hear any useful witness," said the Grenoble prosecutor's office.

A toll-free number is activated to collect any testimonies (0.800.200.142).

Investigations have continued since, with the painstaking work of using CCTV images and telephone data.

The victim's clothes are also appraised.

In particular his shoes and his handbag, found about ten meters from his body.

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