A man was found dead on Tuesday May 31 in a street in Trouillas, a village near Perpignan, with stab wounds to the side and back, AFP learned from the gendarmerie.
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The victim, discovered by residents of the village, was not immediately identified.
The scene of the crime has been frozen in order to allow the work of the criminal identification cell.
The investigation was entrusted to the research brigade of the gendarmerie of Perpignan and to the research section of Montpellier.