Macabre discovery in Marseille.
The firefighters of the Marseille city discovered this Saturday at the beginning of the afternoon a completely charred body without life in the parking lot of the Jean-Moulin college, in the 15th arrondissement, according to information from BFM Marseille-Provence, confirmed to the Parisian by the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters.
Firefighters responded around 2 p.m. to a car fire in the parking lot of the establishment.
The charred body was located near the vehicle.
A witness said he saw the victim still alive when he arrived at the scene, but he quickly succumbed to his injuries.
The victim is a 52-year-old man who lived in Marseille, according to a police source.
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Accident ?
Homicide?
The circumstances of his death are still unclear, the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters told France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, while specifying that no leads have been ruled out.
An investigation has been opened to shed light on this tragedy.