Nothing says the cases are related. A dismembered body was found on Monday afternoon at the back of a disused commercial building in Mont-Saint-Martin (Meurthe-et-Moselle), reports the Lorraine Republican. This discovery comes four days after that of a headless body in a forest in the department, about thirty kilometers further south.
According to the newspaper, it was around 1:30 p.m. on Monday that the authorities received the alert. The body was found behind a disused commercial building, a few steps from the town hall, around which a security perimeter has been set up, specifies L’Essentiel. According to this Luxembourg newspaper (the city is on the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium), it is the body of a young woman.
“A dismembered body, headless and naked, was found at the beginning of the afternoon by a passer-by near a disused building, in a ZUP (urban development zone) of Mont-Saint-Martin ”, confirmed the deputy public prosecutor, Stéphane Javet. “It is a clearly criminal case”, had specified earlier in the afternoon Catherine Galen, public prosecutor of Val-de-Briey, whose prosecution relinquished in favor of that of Nancy.
Headless body found in forest
It was a 16-year-old young man who was looking for a place to urinate who discovered it, says the Luxembourg newspaper. “At first, he thought it was a doll, but we went to see, we understood that it was a body when we saw a tattoo and a piercing”, told a witness to L’Essentiel.
Thursday, a headless body was discovered by a walker in the forest of Moyeuvre-Grande (Moselle). “The corpse is very damaged”, explained the prosecutor of the Republic of Val-de-Briey, Catherine Galen, suggesting that the death could have occurred several months ago. “The first findings did not allow us to say that it was a violent death,” she said. With Le Parisien, this Monday, she notes that there is a priori “no link” between the two cases.