Is the body recovered from the Scheldt that of Maxime Pluchard?

On Tuesday, a body was recovered from the Scheldt river, in Valenciennes, we learned from the prosecution, confirming information from

.

It could be that of Maxime Pluchard, the young man who had disappeared at the beginning of December, after an evening at a disco.

It was walkers who alerted on Tuesday afternoon after noting the presence of a body floating in the Scheldt, in the area which had been searched on December 14 as part of the investigation opened after the disappearance. by Maxime Pluchard.

“The body is being identified”, assures, this Wednesday, the parquet floor of Valenciennes at

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The last area searched by the police

If nothing therefore confirms yet that it is indeed the body of the young man, the place where the body was discovered corresponds to that where Maxime Pluchard had been spotted for the last time on CCTV cameras.

Aged 24, this resident of Valenciennes disappeared on the night of December 3 to 4 after spending the evening with a friend in a nightclub in the city center.

His relatives had organized numerous searches in a vast area between his home and the establishment where he had spent the evening.

In vain.

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