A gendarmerie investigation was opened after the discovery, on Sunday, of a corpse in Beaumont-Monteux (Drôme).

Investigations have already confirmed that the body discovered in a wooded area is that of a 48-year-old man who disappeared the same day.

The 40-year-old had not given any news from 11:30 a.m., when he left his home by bike, says

Le Dauphiné Libéré

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The criminal lead eliminated by the investigators

A call for witnesses had been launched to try to find the cyclist after his family had alerted the gendarmes of his disappearance Search operations had been organized by the relatives of the man.

They had taken place in particular along the Rhône.

The gendarmes will now have to determine in what circumstances the victim died.

They indicated that they had already eliminated any criminal thesis.

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