During the night from Sunday to Monday, in Tarascon, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the police found a body in a bag at the home of an individual.

On the run, the alleged murderer was identified in Arles, before being shot by police. 

Macabre discovery in the night from Sunday to Monday in Tarascon, in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

Alerted by a witness, the police found a lifeless body in a bag at a private home.

It could be a 13-year-old runaway.

Her 32-year-old suspected murderer, on the run, was shot dead by police in Arles.


It was a witness who raised the alert.

Sunday evening, around 11 p.m., the man contacted the police and explained that he thought he had seen a human body in a bag at the home of a private individual in Tarascon.

The police then went to the home.

On site, the tenant, known for violence and a psychiatric history, is absent.

Head and arm sawn off

The police break the door and find a headless body in a bag.

The head and arm were sawn off, and the head is found in a bucket in the bathroom.

The victim could be a 13-year-old teenager declared to run away two days earlier from a home in Marseille. 

The report of the suspected fugitive murderer is widely disseminated.

Around 3 a.m., a police crew identified him in Arles.

He refuses to follow the police.

A security assistant targets him and hits him in the abdomen.

The suspect is dead.