The man found in a plastic barrel floating on the Seine Sunday in Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry (Seine-et-Marne) was 30 years old and of Pakistani nationality, said Melun's prosecutor, Béatrice Angelelli, at the AFP.
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He was not known to the justice system or the police, except for " illegal stay, " said the prosecutor. " We don't know where he lived ." Her death, the reason for which was not known at the time, "was about a week ago, " she added.
The autopsy performed on Monday showed that he had received " six stabbing blows and a strangulation, " said the prosecutor. Sunday, around noon, the firefighters who were carrying out an exercise had seen " this plastic barrel floating on the river ", had told AFP a police source. Inside, the victim's body, " weighted with weights ", "was beginning to rot ", detailed this source. An investigation was opened for " homicide " and entrusted to the judicial police of Versailles.
