An investigating judge has been seized of an investigation for "murder" after the discovery inside a fridge thrown into a canal in Belgium of human limbs a priori female, said Wednesday the prosecutor's office of Liège (east).
It was a local resident, alerted by the presence of a refrigerator emerging from the water, who alerted the police. The police then intervened to bring him up on a bank.
Identify the victim
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We immediately noticed the presence inside of two arms and two legs, "told AFP Catherine Collignon, spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office of Liège, the agglomeration where the discovery takes place Tuesday. The observation of nails, the presence of jewelry: several clues make it possible to deduce that they are members of a woman's body, according to the first elements communicated by the spokeswoman of the prosecutor's office. "The most important thing now is to identify the victim to possibly make the link with a disappearance file," she said.
The investigation will have to determine whether the fridge was thrown into the water from a car, on a bridge, or from a boat. The discovery took place on the Albert Canal, a waterway linking the port of Antwerp to Liège, at Oupeye, a few kilometers north of this large city in Wallonia (French-speaking south of Belgium).