Overview

• A homeless man in his twenties has been placed under formal investigation for “meurtres en concours” and remanded in custody after four bodies were recovered on August 13 at Choisy‑le‑Roi.
• Autopsies identified violence consistent with strangulation on two victims and a suspicious mark on a third, prompting homicide probes now led by the Paris police judiciaire.
• Authorities are exploring a possible serial, homophobic motive linked to the riverbank’s reputation for cruising, and Stop Homophobie has launched a witness appeal and will seek civil‑party status.
• For at least one victim, mixed DNA with the suspect on the pubis and thighs suggests a sexual encounter, according to case reporting.
• The suspect’s identity remains uncertain—he presented himself as an Algerian named Ahmed, while sources cite Monji H., possibly Tunisian—and police records note an August 5 stop where he had documents belonging to a victim before his later arrest in a detention center.