The Nancy prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for intentional homicide after the suspicious death of a man found half-naked along a railway line in an area known for his sexual encounters, we learned from the prosecutor on Saturday. of the Republic.
"The circumstances of the discovery of the body and the first findings suggest a probable" sexual game "that would have gone wrong," said François Pérain.
His vehicle found nearby
The man was found dead on Sunday August 21 in the early morning, along a disused railway line northeast of Nancy, with several objects related to sexual practices.
The victim, in his fifties according to the regional daily
Est Républicain
which revealed the facts, was identified on Monday, while his wife had reported his disappearance that same day.
Still according to the prosecutor, the autopsy carried out in the process did not make it possible to "know with certainty the cause of death", other results of additional examinations "which will have to be part of the duration" being expected.
"A death in connection with certain sexual practices requiring the intervention of one or more third parties is at this stage the most probable hypothesis", assured François Pérain.
The parking of the man's vehicle near the place where he was discovered suggests that he had "definitely gone to this meeting place voluntarily", according to the prosecutor.
Judicial information was opened "in particular to identify the people that this man had been able to meet" in his probable quest for lovemaking in this case "in which many points deserve to be clarified", further specified the magistrate.
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