Comedian Djedje Apali is dead, his body has been identified

The actor Djedje Apali.

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The police had launched an investigation for worrying disappearance.

The actor Djedje Apali committed suicide in July 2019, the Reims (Marne) public prosecutor's office said on Friday.

Recent dental comparisons have made it possible to “formally” identify the body.

According to the press release from the prosecution, the Reims police station, the city where Djedje Apali resided, was informed on July 13, 2020 of the disappearance of the actor, born in 1975 and known in particular for his role in

by Jean-Claude Barny, released in 2016.

Neither the investigation for worrying disappearance, nor the call for witnesses made it possible to find him, "despite numerous investigations (telephone, search, bank accounts ...)", noted the prosecution.

The circumstances of his death remain to be confirmed

The investigators found, "by cross-checking", "a file of violent death which had taken place in the station of Bezannes (Marne), on July 12, 2019, where a person had obviously thrown under a train and could not be since then identified.

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"An odontological expertise was performed a few days ago which, after comparing the dental file of Mr. Apali and the dental findings made on the corpse in July 2019, formally allowed the expert to indicate that the body found was well that of Mr. Djedje Apali ”, continues the prosecution.

The investigation continues in search of the causes of death, "in particular to carry out the final formal verifications allowing to confirm the circumstances [of his] death, according to any hypothesis by suicide".

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