Overview
- A passerby reported a floating body around 2 p.m. Wednesday, and the river brigade recovered the man near Pont Neuf before bringing him to the Quai de Conti.
- Emergency crews confirmed the death on site; police described the victim as a man of African appearance wearing only underwear, with one hand missing and two marks on the chest.
- Police sources estimate the body had been in the water for about three weeks, a timeframe that remains subject to forensic confirmation.
- The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into the causes of death, assigned it to the 5th and 6th arrondissement stations, and requested an autopsy at the city’s medico‑legal institute.
- Officials caution that lesions on bodies recovered from rivers can result from immersion or collisions with obstacles, and no link has been established to earlier 2025 cases in the Seine or Val‑de‑Marne.