A police officer absent from his service in Seine-Saint-Denis was actively sought Friday evening January 28 after a woman was discovered dead in an apartment in Paris, we learned from a police source.
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"Following the report of a policeman who had not taken up his service at Blanc-Mesnil, police went to an apartment in the 19th arrondissement"
, in the northeast of the capital, said this source.
“On the spot, they discovered the body of a woman whose circumstances of death are unknown at this stage.
The policeman is wanted
,” it added.
A security perimeter was installed in the neighborhood to block traffic around the building and judicial police were on the scene, noted an AFP journalist.