Near Toulouse. The bailiff came for unpaid rent: he discovers the mummified body of the tenant
By Laurent Derne
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According to a gendarme, he had probably been dead for “several months”. The body of a man in his sixties was found in the state of mummificationthis Friday, September 2, 2022, in his apartment in Balma (Haute-Garonne), near Toulouse.
The bailiff makes the locksmith open the door
It’s a bailiffwho intervened in the company of a locksmith for a matter of unpaid rentswho made the macabre discovery in an apartment in the Vidailhan eco-district.
“The victim, who lived alone, was found in his bathroom. It looks like a natural death,” said an officer of the Gendarmerie Company of Toulouse Saint-Michel.
An autopsy will be performed
No one had reported the absence of this man, nor of possible odors related to the decomposition of the body. “A priori, the tenant must have been unemployed and without close family, because no one had complained of not having heard from him”. The Balma gendarmerie brigade was in charge of the investigation.
At the request of the Toulouse prosecutor’s office, “a autopsy will be diligentForensic Institute (IML) of Toulouse to determine, if possible, the circumstances of his death”, specifies the company of Toulouse Saint-Michel. This autopsy should not take place until next week.
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