France
Man poses with head and penis of murder victim to the police
A man presented the head and genitals of a murder victim to a police station in the south of France
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Horrible visit to a police station in the south of France: A man appears there with a bag that contained the cut off head and penis of another man. The background is still unclear.
Police in the south of France arrested a man who turned himself in with another man’s head and penis cut off. This was announced by the gendarmerie in the Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur region and the public prosecutor’s office on Friday, thereby confirming a report in the daily “Var Matin”. The motive is still unclear. The relationship between the perpetrator and his victim was also not yet known.
Accordingly, the 38-year-old man turned himself in to the police in Fréjus near the port city of Toulon on Friday morning, “after he had cut off another man’s head and penis”. He was immediately taken to police headquarters and arrested. The man was previously only known for “minor offenses”.
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According to the Draguignan Public Prosecutor’s Office, the man testified that he had “committed the premeditated murder the night before in the municipality of Fréjus”. He also mentioned the name of his victim. The 38-year-old man has had a psychiatric examination and a psychiatric report will be drawn up. He came into custody.
The investigators later found the decapitated and mutilated body in the 38-year-old’s apartment. On Friday evening, the investigation continued in the man’s apartment, which was the alleged crime scene.