The parquet floor of Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) has opened an investigation for intentional homicide after the suspicious death of a man found half-naked along a disused railway line in an area in the north-east of the famous city. for his sexual encounters.
“The circumstances of the discovery of the body and the first findings suggest a probable sex game which would have gone wrong, ”said the public prosecutor of Nancy François Pérain on Saturday.
It was two residents who were walking their dogs, at dawn on Sunday August 21, who found this man, according to Est Républicain near rue du Dr Grandjean. They called the emergency services, which could not do anything for the victim, who had been dead for several hours. Objects related to sexual practices had been found nearby.
His wife had reported him missing.
The 50-year-old, according to the regional daily which revealed the facts, was identified on Monday, while his wife had reported his disappearance that same day. Still according to the prosecutor, the autopsy carried out in the process did not make it possible to “know with certainty the cause of death”, other results of additional examinations “which will have to be part of the duration” being expected.
“A death in connection with certain sexual practices requiring the intervention of one or more third parties is at this stage the most probable hypothesis”, assured the magistrate. The parking of the man’s vehicle near the place where he was discovered suggests that he had “definitely gone to this meeting place voluntarily”, according to the prosecutor.
Judicial information was opened “in particular to identify the people that this man had been able to meet” in his probable quest for lovemaking in this case “in which many points deserve to be clarified”, further specified the magistrate.