A corpse in a state of mummification was discovered on the night of Monday September 19 to Tuesday September 20 near the hospital in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) by police in search of a calf which had escaped from the slaughterhouse , we learned from concordant sources.
The body, which at this stage it is impossible to determine whether it is that of a man or a woman, was lying on the bank of the Gespe river, between the hospital car park and a laundry, according to a source close to the investigation.
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A few hours earlier, a calf had "
jumped the fence of the slaughterhouse
" and the police had started after it to prevent it from causing a traffic accident, said the owner of the animal who participated in the research.
Seen on the Tarbes ring road around 1:00 a.m., the calf “
left in the direction of the laundry, entered a thicket where it fell into a sort of small ravine full of brambles (…) It was there that the police found a corpse
,” he added.
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The animal was only caught in the early morning and finally released to its mother, according to the breeder.
A judicial inquiry has been opened and the autopsy of the body must be performed at the end of the week at the forensic institute of Toulouse, according to the source close to the investigation.
