The body of a 23-year-old man, missing, thrown into the sewers: after six years of meticulous investigations and twists and turns, the Criminal Brigade of the judicial police of Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) arrested a man, suspected of being involved in a most gruesome affair, learned 20 Minutes.
In October 2014, a young 23-year-old man was reported missing after participating in a rave party in a small village in the Aude region. It was his parents who had warned the police, worried that they had heard nothing from their son.
Bones found in pipes
Almost three years later, in June 2017, the riddle took a completely different turn, while cleaning employees accidentally discovered a human skull while they were working on a rainwater pipe in Narbonne ( Aude).
Thorough excavations had then plunged the police in charge of the investigation a little more into horror: other bones, including a shoulder blade or a rib, had been found. As well as a neck chain. It is this jewel, which appeared on the photograph which accompanied his research file, as well as analyzes of dental impressions on the jaw found in the sewers, which will allow the investigators to formally identify the young man, disappeared three years more early.
30-year-old man ends up investigating
Since then, the investigators had taken a close interest in the middle of rave parties, of which the victim was a regular, and had multiplied the hearings, and carefully scoured social networks for signs allowing to retrace his last hours.
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- The Independent (@lindependant) June 28, 2020It was not until June 23, three years after the discovery of the victim's bones, that the police managed to specify what the young man would have done before disappearing: three people were arrested. Two of them will be dismissed, but another, a 30-year-old man, one of his friends at the time, ended up giving himself up to the investigators. In police custody, he would have explained that they had gone to Narbonne together, after the rave party. They would then have decided to sleep on the spot, in an abandoned house, in a context of taking large narcotics.
He would have recovered the victim's phone
As he crossed the wall of a villa, the suspect would have noticed that his traveling companion was on the ground, unconscious. The man reportedly told investigators that he was no longer breathing, that he had no pulse. That's where the case takes a gruesome turn: rather than calling for help, the 30-year-old is suspected of having thrown the victim's body into an unsealed sewer, near there, police say. .
However, he retrieved the victim's cell phone, and simulated exchanges of calls and SMS with his own, said the police. To the investigators who were then working to find the young man, the suspect would then have indicated that their paths had separated, and that he had no idea where he was. The man was charged with "failing to assist a person in danger" and "attacking the integrity of a corpse", and placed in pre-trial detention at the Béziers prison.
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