The corpse of a 59-year-old woman was discovered on Saturday, January 8 in the early morning, in the bandstand on the Croichet promenade in Poligny (Jura), we learned on Monday from the Lons-le- prosecutor's office. Saunier, confirming information from France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Compté.
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The macabre discovery was made around 8 a.m. by the victim's companion who had gone looking for him.
Warned, the gendarmes "
found that the victim had several wounds on the level of the skull
", details in
Figaro
the prosecutor of Lons-le-Saunier, Lionel Pascal, who opened a criminal investigation of the head of "fatal blows resulting in death ".
The magistrate however specifies that the thesis of an accident is not excluded at this stage of the investigations.
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It remains for the investigators of the judicial pole of the national gendarmerie of Jura and of the research section of Besançon to determine the schedule of the victim, the hours preceding his death.
"
Several testimonies suggest that she was heavily alcoholic
", specifies Lionel Pascal.
A resident of Poligny, the latter was known to the police for nuisances and disturbances to public order.
The body of the fifty-year-old was transported to the forensic institute of Besançon where an autopsy will be performed during the day.