Was he gray or white?
Wooden or porcelain?
The trunk triumphantly erected?
Her stomach was plump, sure.
An elephant-shaped piggy bank was found on a sidewalk near Bordeaux, in Mérignac (Gironde), a few days ago.
Abandoned with, probably, the savings of a lifetime: 85,000 euros.
Who do they belong to?
Mystery.
At the end of June, a man found in the middle of bulky items deposited on a sidewalk in Mérignac "a decorative object in the shape of an elephant", with the intention of giving it to his mother, detailed this Thursday to AFP on Bordeaux parquet.
Seeing the fortune that was there, in small denominations, he went on the evening of June 24 to the central police station in Bordeaux.
According to South West, who had told the story three days later, the forensic identification proceeds to surveys, hoping to find the fingerprints of the owners of this hoard.
The Banque de France concludes that they are real banknotes, not copies, and the question then arises of a link with drug trafficking, because in what "business", if not, can we collect so many liquid…
A few days pass, until, on Monday, a man, alerted by the articles in the press, told investigators that his parents are probably the owners of this sum. His mother has just died, his father lives in an nursing home, so he "emptied the parental accommodation and deposited unnecessary objects on the public highway", including a priori the famous elephant. If the man can attest to the address where his parents lived, he cannot, according to the prosecution, provide proof "on the ownership of the sum at stake". It should of course be heard by the investigators of the Departmental Security.