The body of a decapitated man also having a severed arm was discovered Friday, December 24 afternoon at the side of a road in the town of Albias about ten kilometers north-west of Montauban, AFP learned. from a source close to the case.
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Called by a witness who found the mutilated corpse, the emergency services secured the area until the arrival of the gendarmerie, indicates the same source.
According to the
Dépêche du Midi,
which revealed the case, a representative of the Montauban public prosecutor's office immediately went there.
The magistrate referred to a "
macabre discovery (...) unexpected and unusual
" specifying that he had called "
a forensic doctor to understand what happened
", underlines the regional daily.
The gendarmes of the Montauban research brigade were in charge of the investigation, the daily added.