The man whose decapitated body was discovered Friday by a couple of walkers along a road in the town of Albias (Tarn) has been identified and a criminal investigation opened, we learned from the prosecutor's office on Saturday from Montauban.
"This is a 31-year-old man known to the courts for traffic offenses and acts of theft," the interim public prosecutor of Montauban, Anne Gaullier, said in a statement on Saturday.
According to the magistrate, the forensic scientist dispatched to the scene noted "several stab wounds in the thorax and back and put forward the hypothesis of a mutilation of the mortem-carrying body".
The head was discovered Saturday morning "a hundred meters from the scene in a plastic bag" while "two cut forearms were found the same evening near the body," said Ms. Gaullier in her press release.
"The hypothesis of a heinous crime is privileged" by the justice which entrusted the investigation to the research section of Toulouse and the research brigade of Montauban.
