Macabre discovery at the Bois de Vincennes. This Tuesday, at 2 pm, during their marauding, the social workers of Emmaus discovered a homeless person "lying on the ground and inanimate". They called on the 17th. At 4 pm, the victim was officially declared dead.
A man with fragile health
This Wednesday, the police officers of the police station of the XIIth district, in charge of the investigation by the parquet floor of Paris, continued their investigations for "research of the causes of death". "No suspicious element was discovered on the body," said a source close to the file. At the prosecution, the magistrate did not request an autopsy but an examination of the body. "This 62-year-old man was in poor health," said the source. He reportedly suffered a stroke in 2015. "
The police also had to formally establish his identity. The man, of Norman origin, formerly a farm worker, was breaking up with the family, "had neither identity document nor valuable property, neither on him nor in his shelter", we are told. Fellows who also lived in the woods must be auditioned. The last time the victim was seen alive was last week, Wednesday.
He lived there for 7 years
It has been 7 years since the sixty-something lived in the woods. He slept in a hut, route de Saint-Louis (12th). "In the Bois de Vincennes, says Bruno Morel, Director General of Emmaus Solidarity, there are 150 people who live permanently", in makeshift shelters spread across the woods between several camps. "We followed this man and helped him build his retirement rights file," he concludes.
For its part, the collective Les Mortes de la Rue, a 1901 law association created in 2002, informed of the death of the victim, tried to go back in its history and find the family. Since the beginning of the year, in France, at least 26 homeless people have died on the street, including 9 Parisians. In 2019, the collective listed 531.