The police were called in for a dispute between neighbors and for kidnapping.
When they got to the apartment in question, they had to break down the door and… came across a dead man.
The victim is an 80 year old man.
Natural death?
The hypothesis seemed privileged.
The victim is said to have died the day before.
But in doubt and given the circumstances of this intervention against a background of social misery, the forensic doctor signed a death certificate with medico-legal obstacle.
An autopsy was to be performed.
The facts took place this Tuesday afternoon, in an apartment in a low-cost housing estate in Paris Habitat, square du Limousin (13th century), in Paris, along the Maréchaux, Porte d'Ivry.
A restless and psychologically fragile man
Originally, Emergency Police was called for "an individual kidnapping his neighbor".
But as the tenant did not want to open, despite "several injunctions", notes a police source, the officials had to take out the ram and smash the door.
They had trouble controlling the man, 53 years old, 1m85, agitated and psychologically fragile.
They handcuffed him.
The police then inspected the apartment.
In a room, they found the kidnapped man with minor injuries to his face.
The latter, a fifty-something, told officials that he was beaten and threatened with a knife.
At his side, lying on a bed, lay the old man of 80 years, deceased.
A body next to the kidnapped victim
In another bedroom, police found an elderly lady who turned out to be the mother of the family and could not move.
The victim was first taken care of by doctors and then by the mortuary services.
His body was taken to the Forensic Institute (IML).
His wife was hospitalized at the Kremlin-Bicêtre (Val-de-Marne) and the kidnapped fifty-something was taken to the Pitié Salpêtrière (13th century).
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A medical examination was to determine whether the son, arrested and brought back to the police station, was fit for police custody.
A transfer to the IPPP (psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters) was envisaged.
The investigation was entrusted to the 13th century police station.