Assassinations, suicides and macabre discoveries: inside the secrets of the Paris Forensic Institute which “makes 3,000 deceased people speak” per year

It is one of the most secret places in Paris.

One of the most enigmatic too, which interweaves a form of magnetism for the morbid and the practice of a strange magic that only science allows: that of making the dead speak.

The residents who parade there in their thousands every year have reached the afterlife in brutal or suspicious circumstances.

Fallen by bullets or stabbed, hanged or poisoned, mowed down by a car or died in the street, discovered as skeletons in their apartment, all disappeared, leaving behind question marks.

So many mysteries that the Paris Medico-Legal Institute (IML) is trying to unravel, an institution both timeless and curiously very modern that the police headquarters (PP) keeps away from prying eyes.

There, in this red brick building perched on the banks of the Seine, at the Quai de la Rapée, the largest center…

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