Investigation after the discovery of the body of a man victim of torture

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• The body of a 34-year-old man of Chinese nationality was discovered late Tuesday afternoon in an apartment in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.

• According to the first elements of the investigation, the victim was tortured before succumbing to his injuries.

  An investigation was opened, entrusted to the 2nd district of judicial police.

• While a suspect is wanted, investigators are studying the trail of a settlement.

It was a neighbor, intrigued by the noises coming from an apartment and by the presence of traces of blood in front of the door, who alerted the police.

It is around 4 p.m. on Tuesday when officials go to rue de l'Ourcq in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.

After obtaining his phone number, they try to contact the tenant of the premises.

But they systematically fall on his email.

The agents will then try to enter the apartment on the first floor through a window.

They do not succeed, but one of them notices that the light has remained on in the apartment.

Above all, he notices other traces of blood on the ground.

At around 5 p.m., the police kicked open the door.

Inside, the horror.

They discover the body of an Asian man, lying on the ground in a pool of blood, his head resting on a large sack of rice.

The victim presented numerous wounds, suggesting to the officers that she was tortured: broken fingers, bruises, lacerations, and even "holes in the ankles" as well as a "cut in the throat", indicates to

a police source.

A police officer will try to help him by giving him a cardiac massage.

In vain.

A victim with a heavy judicial past

Twenty minutes later, the Samu doctor can only note the death of the victim.

The owner of the premises assures him: it is not his tenant.

Who is this man on whom we have worked hard?

A few minutes later, a panicked woman presents herself to the officers.

This is his wife.

Her husband, she says, was born in Zhe Jiang, China, thirty-four years ago.

Since then, he has lived in a small pavilion in Seine-Saint-Denis, in La Courneuve.

She last saw him at 12 p.m.

But in the afternoon, she received a video on her phone showing her dying husband.

The issuer is none other than the tenant of the apartment, who is actively sought.

Quickly, the sleuths of the 2nd district of the judicial police and the criminal brigade arrived on the spot, accompanied by the agents of the judicial identity.

They go through the crime scene with a fine-tooth comb, looking for clues while the victim's body is transported to the forensic institute for autopsy.

The investigation has only just begun and, if no leads are ruled out, the investigators are leaning towards the hypothesis of a settling of accounts.

According to our information, the victim is in fact known to the police for his involvement in cases of kidnapping and kidnapping, theft and violence with weapons.

"Heavy business", summarizes a source close to the case.

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