Macabre discovery by the authorities. A seven-year-old boy was found dead on Thursday in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales), the prosecution said in a press release on Friday. According to a source close to the investigation, the deceased child was found in the bathtub of an apartment in the poor district of Bas Vernet. The body had multiple bruises and was partially frozen.
Two girls, aged two and three, were also hospitalized and bear “traces of multiple trauma,” said Perpignan public prosecutor Jean-David Cavaillé.
Father and uncle in police custody
The two men in police custody, aged 33 and 28 and already convicted in the past, are the father and uncle of the three children, according to a source close to the investigation.
An investigation was opened for murder of a minor, attempted murder, violence against minors by ascendant, kidnapping, concealment of corpses and forgery and use of forgery. She was entrusted to the Perpignan judicial police.