The autopsy was to determine in the first place if they are babies or fetuses which were locked in the jars discovered in Ville-d'Avray, in the house of a deceased gynecologist.
Forensic scientists have provided the answer: it is a fetus.
“Not viable”, specifies the parquet floor of Nanterre.
In other words, if they had come to light, these fetuses were not sufficiently developed to become babies.
These first forensic analyzes therefore ruled out the thesis of murder: the fetuses never having been “alive”, they could not have been killed.
In their first conclusions, the specialists of the forensic institute of Garches also indicate that the three fetuses present neither morphological anomaly nor lesion.
Which leads to two hypotheses: they are the result of abortions or miscarriages, summarizes a person close to the investigation.
But when do these abortions or miscarriages date?
Impossible to know yet.
Forensic pathologists must do other analyzes to try to date the fetuses, which are still unknown whether they are five, fifteen, twenty or more years old.
The story of the doctor at the heart of the investigation
So to try to establish the history of these fetuses, everything today relies on police investigations, carried out by the minors brigade of the Parisian judicial police.
In addition to the forensic analyzes, with examination of the traces on the jars and in the house, the course of the owner of the house, Jean-Paul A., will be scrutinized.
Died in 2015, at the age of 74, this man described by his neighbors as quite lonely and living withdrawn into himself and reclusive in his house, had no children.
He lived in his books, acted a little, playing in a few plays broadcast on television in the show Au theater this evening, in the late 1960s.
But if he has not, or very little, exercised, Jean-Paul A. was a gynecologist by training.
Did he practice clandestine abortions?
Before or after 1975, the year of the decriminalization of abortion?
Did he bring back the miscarriage fetuses from the university where he studied?
Or a maternity?
And if others than him were linked to the presence of the three fetuses, discovered in this decrepit house, uninhabited for years and squatted at times according to some local residents?
Not sure that the investigations will remove all the mysteries.
