Erwan Blais, an 18-year-old student, disappeared in February after an evening at a nightclub. A genetic comparison analysis made it possible to identify the body discovered in a river in Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre.
The investigation will continue “to determine under what circumstances the young man could have found himself in the river”, adds the prosecutor. “The main hypothesis is death by drowning”, adds the public prosecutor of Niort.