An investigation was opened after the discovery Friday afternoon of the lifeless body of a newborn in the toilets of Bergerac station, in Dordogne, indicates the prosecution.

The body was found by a cleaning lady in the toilet bowl for people with reduced mobility, where there were also blood and the placenta, specifies the deputy prosecutor of Bergerac Charles Charollois, who opened an investigation in search of the causes. death entrusted to the Bergerac police station.

An autopsy scheduled for Tuesday in Bordeaux will have to determine "if the child, male, was born alive or died in utero", which will guide the qualification of the facts, explained the deputy prosecutor.

Searches with local hospitals for a woman possibly in distress have been unsuccessful and Bergerac station does not have surveillance cameras, he also said.

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