Europe 1 with AFP 7:55 p.m., August 25, 2021

Two days after the discovery of three bodies of newborns in the annex of a house in Mézeray in the Sarthe, the public prosecutor's office in Le Mans opened a judicial investigation against X for "intentional homicide of a minor under 15".

The investigation is entrusted to the gendarmerie company of La Flèche.

A judicial investigation was opened for "intentional homicide on a minor under 15 years" after the discovery of three bodies of newborns, whose age remains to be determined, in the annex of a house in Mézeray, in the Sarthe, the Le Mans parquet announced on Wednesday.

"The first of the acts which will be carried out by the investigating judge will be expert reports for the purposes of identifying the children, by comparing the DNA taken with all the DNA of relatives, of people who have occupied the premises" , said the prosecution.

The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmerie company of La Flèche.

"The investigation is only just beginning"

The macabre discovery was made on Monday. A 40-year-old man living in Mézeray contacted the Sarthe gendarmerie after discovering, "concealed in an annex of the property which he had occupied for several years the remains of at least one decomposed body," the prosecution said on Tuesday. in a press release. "There are three (body, editor's note), this figure has been confirmed by forensic pathologists. But we are not sure about their age, the seniority of their birth. A priori, but that will still be the case. 'subject of expertise in view of the state of degradation of the body, the experts evoke children born and not fetuses, "added the prosecution.

"All the people who contributed to the discovery were heard. As it stands, there was no police custody or coercive measure. The investigation has only just begun," continued the prosecution.

According to

BFM TV, a man whose wife died suddenly of cancer this month made the gruesome discovery while tidying up, forcing the lock on a piece of furniture in a shed away from his house.

"We are talking about people who are perhaps totally foreign to the facts. The investigation will already aim to establish the identification of these small bodies and then to identify their parents," said the prosecution about the occupants of the house.