Who is she ? And why was his body cut up and dumped in plastic bags scattered in one of the capital’s busiest parks? Monday, February 13, green space agents discovered the body of a woman at Buttes-Chaumont, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. More specifically: a female body part, from the belly above the knees, wrapped in a plastic bag and left in the middle of a pile of foliage and branches.
Of the victim, nothing is known at this time. His remains have no age yet, let alone a first name. So we cling to the one tiny thing that tells her story, a little bit of her life amid the overflow of details about the horror of finding her torn body: she seemed to be wearing “blue jeans” with a ” floral decoration” at the level of a thigh, according to a police source.
“The identification is in progress,” said the Paris prosecutor’s office on Tuesday, after declaring Monday afternoon that nothing allowed at this stage to date his death. An investigation for “assassination” was opened, and the investigations were entrusted to the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police.
Long raking work
As of Monday afternoon, the Buttes-Chaumont park had been emptied of its many walkers and closed, to make way for searches by the police in search of clues and the rest of the dismembered body. A long raking work then began within the 25 hectares of wooded hills and slopes of this Parisian park built on a former gypsum quarry, between its cave-waterfall, its rocky island planted on a lake and its small perched temple.
The waters of the lake were probed, each hillside surveyed. And it was finally near the disused railway tracks of the small belt that the police made new gruesome discoveries on Tuesday, February 14, at the end of the morning: other human body parts were found in several garbage bags, according to different sources.
The investigations are now continuing with a double objective: to put a name on the victim, and to understand what may have happened to him. Is it just one and the same person? The results of the autopsies in progress should quickly give the first leads to the investigators of the criminal brigade. Just like the careful study of the long hours recorded by the CCTV cameras around the park, which were able to capture the comings and goings around its ten entrances.
