Overview

• A RER C passenger alerted authorities on August 13 after spotting a floating body in the Seine at Choisy-le-Roi, leading police, firefighters and the river brigade to recover four decomposed adult male bodies.
• Police provisionally described three clothed victims and one unclothed victim, noting they appeared to have been immersed for several days and were classified as three “type africain” and one “type nord-africain.”
• All four remains were transported to the Institut médico-légal de Paris for autopsies and formal identification procedures.
• Autopsy findings determined one man was strangled, and the Creteil prosecutor’s office has assigned its criminal brigade to investigate that death as a homicide.
• Forensic analysis indicates the other three men likely died of natural causes, and the SAIP de Choisy-le-Roi continues efforts to identify the victims and establish how they came to lie close together.