The body discovered at the end of December in a trunk in Moselle was identified as that of a 27-year-old man suffering from schizophrenia and missing since the summer of 2022, we learned on Monday from the Metz public prosecutor's office.
Two people, a man and his partner, are already indicted in this case.
The body is that of Guillaume Mongin, Thomas Bernard, deputy public prosecutor of Metz, told AFP, confirming information from Lorraine Actu.
Schizophrenic, he had been missing since August 28, 2022 after a walk in the forest in Val-et-Châtillon (Meurthe-et-Moselle), the town where he was from and located around twenty kilometers from Gondrexange, where the main suspect owned a small plot of land on the edge of a pond.
“Murder”, “concealment of a corpse” and “attack on the integrity of a corpse”
Since his disappearance, his loved ones have increased calls to find him on social networks.
Many onlookers attested at the time to having identified him.
His body was discovered on December 20 in Gondrexange, about a hundred kilometers southeast of Metz, by firefighters called to put out a fire in a residential house.
Once the fire was under control, they discovered a trunk with inside the remains of the corpse of a
“young man between 25 and 30 years old”
, then unidentified and probably
“died of a violent and non-accidental death”.
, Metz prosecutor Yves Bardoc then confided.
The owners of the house, a couple with children, were quickly taken into police custody and indicted for
“murder”
,
“concealment of a corpse”
and
“attacking the integrity of a corpse”
then placed in pre-trial detention. .
Their two children, aged 9 and 13, were placed in care, said the suspect's lawyer, Me Romain Hellenbrand, whose client was released and placed under judicial supervision on January 11.
His companion, who exonerated his partner while in police custody, is still in pre-trial detention.
“This affair is also a family drama
,” confided his lawyer, Me Loraine Biernaczyk.