The body found buried in a field in the Doubs is that of a man known to the police for drug trafficking who had been missing since March, the Besançon prosecutor's office confirmed on Tuesday.
"
The comparison of the fingerprints of the corpse with those of the 21-year-old individual who has been missing since March 9 has made it possible to confirm the latter's identity
", detailed Christine de Curraize, deputy prosecutor of the Besançon judicial court. during a press briefing.
Medhi Tiza's body was discovered on Saturday by two people who saw a hand protruding from the ground.
The autopsy performed on Monday "
did not make it possible to determine the exact causes of death given the state of advanced putrefaction of the body
" but "
no ballistic lesion was found
", added the deputy prosecutor , "
which excludes the use of a firearm
".
However, the autopsy revealed cranio-facial trauma as well as skull fractures attesting to "
violence of a certain intensity
", she said.
The victim was known to the police in connection with narcotics cases.
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Missing in action
The man was last seen in March in the company of Salim Touel, another drug trafficking suspect, whose burning body was discovered in a forest near Besançon on March 9.
He had been missing since.
The judicial investigation is extended to the facts of kidnapping and sequestration in an organized gang, followed by death.
Facts punishable by life imprisonment The investigation was entrusted to the Research Brigade and the Research Section of the National Gendarmerie of Burgundy Franche-Comté.