The body of a woman found dismembered in a busy Paris park earlier this week has been identified, sources close to the investigation and the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
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It is about “a 46-year-old woman who was declared missing by her husband on February 6”, according to prosecutors, who confirm that the couple lived in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The link between the two cases was made thanks to the victim’s fingerprints, the same source added, confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien.
The investigation into enforced disappearances entrusted to the Paris Criminal Police Department’s Crime Suppression Brigade (BRDP) had so far yielded nothing.
Around 2:30 p.m. Monday, city parks and gardens officials discovered a plastic bag containing a woman’s pelvis and thighs under a pile of green waste. She was still wearing “blue jeans” with a “floral accessory” on her thigh, a police source said on Tuesday.
The other remains, including the head, were found Tuesday morning during a thorough excavation of Buttes Chaumont Park.
The park, a very busy spot in northeast Paris, was evacuated and closed to the public on Monday and only reopened on Tuesday afternoon.