Suresnes: missing, the president of the judo club had been dead for ten days

His relatives had lived in anguish for ten days.

Now the grief and the pain are overwhelming them.

Tuesday evening, Antoine Seguin's parents received the dreaded phone call: their son's body was found.

Hanged man, in the Plaisir forest (Yvelines).

Since October 30, the family and close friends of this 35-year-old man, established in the town of Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), of which he recently chaired the judo club, had been worried.

The day before, Friday October 29, Antoine Seguin would have joined the north of the capital for a private party, to which he wanted to go with friends.

His participation in this party has not been confirmed.

During the night, friends sent him WhatsApp messages which were consulted, assures a relative.

But since then, nothing.

We do not yet know how he ended up in the Plaisir Forest.

But it was there that his body was discovered by a jogger on October 30, hanging from a tree.

In his pocket, Antoine Seguin always had his phone, in which the police would have discovered a message announcing his intention to end existence.

Message that was not sent to anyone.

And he still had his car keys while it was parked at his home in Suresnes.

This suicide thesis is ruled out, but it is possible that the judoka's aggressor (s) have tried to make believe in his will to die.

The victim struck several times

"We have moved from an investigation into the causes of death to a criminal investigation," said the Versailles prosecutor's office on Wednesday.

Thus, the criminal brigade of the judicial police of Versailles is now in charge of investigations.

It was the autopsy that led to the murder thesis.

If the body did not appear damaged, the forensic examination indeed revealed that the victim was beaten several times before being hanged.

By who ?

Why ?

The criminal squad will certainly provide the answers.

In the entourage of this appreciated man, we are obviously "in shock".

“And we ask ourselves questions.

How is it that we did not know earlier that it was he who had been found in the forest?

Asks a close friend.

It is indeed at the beginning of the week that the judicial authorities made the connection between the victim of the Plaisir forest and Antoine Seguin.

Monday, the prosecution of Nanterre had seized the brigade of repression of delinquency to people of an investigation for "worrying disappearance".

Only Monday because as soon as she became concerned, the family of Antoine Seguin, who lives in Deux-Sèvres, had reported her disappearance to the local gendarmerie.

The Nanterre prosecutor's office was not informed until the beginning of this week.

The link with the forest victim was only made on Tuesday.