The body of a dismembered and headless woman found in mid-September in Mont-Saint-Martin (Meurthe-et-Moselle) is that of a Portuguese national residing in Luxembourg, the Nancy prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday October 4.
"
Thanks to the press release of the drawings of the victim's tattoos, the judicial authorities of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg informed us that they had identified the woman with the dismembered body
," said the public prosecutor, François Pérain. .
The body of the victim discovered by a passerby
The identification was confirmed by a "
DNA comparison
", he added.
The parquet floor of Nancy therefore relinquished the case in favor of the parquet floor of Dierkich, in Luxembourg, indicated the magistrate.
The victim's trunk had been discovered by a passerby in mid-September "
near a disused building
" in Mont-Saint-Martin, a town located on the border with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Nancy prosecutor's office had detailed.
The results of the autopsy of the body of the woman, who was between 20 and 35 years old, had revealed no traces of bullet or stab wounds or sexual violence.
She was probably killed “
within 24 hours
” preceding the discovery of the body, obviously “
dismembered in another place
”, indicated Mr. Pérain.
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The investigators and the prosecution had distributed to the press the drawings of the tattoos present on the trunk of the victim, in an attempt to identify him.
The prosecution had also opened a procedure to identify the author of a video of the victim's body which had circulated on social networks.
