According to the first elements, the septuagenarian had been dead for three years. An investigation is underway to determine the cause of his death.
The mummified body of a septuagenarian, dead for about three years, was found at the end of December by the firefighters of Libourne, near Bordeaux, the prosecution said on Thursday, confirming information from South West.
The victim was discovered on December 31 in an apartment while the emergency services intervened to search for “the origin of a water leak”, specifies the Libourne prosecutor’s office.
An investigation is opened to determine the identity of the victim and to know the circumstances of his death. The first elements indicate that she died “for about three years”, indicates the gendarmerie. According to testimonies collected by the newspaper South Westthe absence of the septuagenarian had not been noticed by the neighborhood.