An investigator from the “criminal identification” cell of the Haute-Garonne gendarmerie. Drawing. – F. Scheiber / 20 Minutes
It is indeed the criminal trail that is followed after the discovery of a charred body in a car on Sunday evening in the town of
Clermont-le-Fort, south of the Pink City. “An assassination investigation has been entrusted to the Research Sections of the
gendarmerieAnd to the Villefranche-de-Lauragais Research Brigade. The identity of the victim remains unknown for the moment ”, indicated on Tuesday to 20 minutes, Alix-Marie Cabot-Chaumeton, the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Toulouse.
And to specify at the end of the day, this Tuesday, that “the autopsy made it possible to confirm that the death is consecutive to the intervention of a third”.
Not identified
Sunday evening, firefighters were called for fire in a field, on a small country road. But once the flames had been brought under control, they discovered a body that was completely burnt, to the point of not being able to determine its sex.
The gendarmerie’s criminal identification technicians worked all day yesterday on the vehicle and the victim, whose identity is therefore still not known. The autopsy could lift a veil on this mysterious crime, indicate in particular if the victim was already dead when the car was set on fire by a third person or if she perished in the flames.