Europe 1 with AFP 2:32 p.m., February 3, 2023, modified at 2:36 p.m., February 3, 2023

In Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, a newborn baby was found dead in a bag Friday morning on a sidewalk in the town of Seine-Saint-Denis.

The infant was discovered by garbage collectors near a trash can, a hundred meters from the town hall, we learned from a source close to the investigation.

A newborn baby was found dead in a bag on Friday morning on a sidewalk in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine in Seine-Saint-Denis, we learned from the Bobigny prosecutor's office.

The infant was discovered by garbage collectors near a trash can, a hundred meters from the town hall, we learned from a source close to the investigation.

"He may have been filed in the evening", indicates the Bobigny prosecution, specifying that "the investigations are in progress".

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At this stage, the circumstances of the death are not known.

As Le Parisien

relates

, the sex of the child has not been specified, and the surveillance cameras located in the neighborhood are not able to identify the person who dropped him off on the sidewalk.

The investigation was entrusted to the territorial security of Seine-Saint-Denis.

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