A phone, identical to that of Lucas Tronche, was found "in the same location as the other objects already discovered and identified as being those" of the teenager, who disappeared in 2015, said on Monday Eric Maurel, the prosecutor of Nîmes (Gard ).

This laptop will be "quickly exploited" by investigators.

In Bagnols-sur-Céze (Gard), one kilometer from the house where the teenager lived with his family, a jacket and a watch, which “almost certainly” belong to the teenager, had been found on Friday.

New bones had also been found in the same area, a particularly steep cliff.

It is an area that Lucas Tronche, passionate about geology, frequented regularly, with his father.

No track is ruled out

The day before, a backpack, debris of clothing and human remains had been found in the same place. Friday, the prosecutor specified that the bones were going to be subjected to analyzes, but that the investigators were moving “more and more towards the identification of Lucas Tronche”. “The expertise […] will allow us to make sure that we are indeed in the presence of the adolescent's bones”.

For the moment, no lead has been ruled out. "In view of the elements found, and pending forensic expertise, it is impossible to favor one hypothesis over another," said the prosecutor on Friday. An accidental fall? Suicide? Did a third party intervene? According to the prosecutor, “the configuration of the land makes it difficult to imagine that someone has transported the body from the bottom of the cliff to the highest point. But we can't rule it out either. "

But the investigation will be difficult.

"The body has remained in nature," explained the Nîmes prosecutor.

Nature has been there.

The animals have been there.

What are the elements that relate to possible blows, the results of the fall or the intervention of nature?

Only specialists will perhaps be able to tell us.

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