The mystery still lingers. On January 4, the lifeless body of Florian Géraud, a 43-year-old Frenchman from Ariège, was found hanged in an abandoned pizzeria in Asunción, Paraguay. His parents do not believe in suicide and want at all costs for the French justice system to open an investigation.
According to our colleagues at France 3 Occitanie, the Ariégeois left, on December 11, for a month-long trip to visit one of his friends, Edgar. Both had plans to film an investigative documentary on the Guarani Indians. Florian, however, disappeared on the evening of January 3 and his lifeless body was found four days later, seven kilometers from his friend’s house. The Paraguayan police are leaning towards suicide.
Disturbing circumstances
However, certain elements sow doubt. Indeed, on New Year’s Eve, Florian was alone in his friend’s house. Surveillance cameras filmed him going out twice, between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., in flip-flops, without his papers and without money.
He had not locked the front door, “as if to go out for just a few minutes,” his father interprets. His disappearance therefore seems particularly suspicious for those close to him. His father also specifies that Florian “was not a depressed boy”. Father and son both ran a real estate agency, located in Massat (Ariège), and were therefore very close.
“It worked well for him, professionally and in his private life. […] There is no reason for him to commit suicide. » Florian’s parents went to lodge a complaint with the Massat gendarmerie, and are hoping for an investigation to be opened to obtain more information.