A body matching Marcus found in a river – Le Figaro

This boy of 2 years has been missing since April 24th. A work of analysis and autopsy must confirm the identity of the child.

he was a Little Marcus found? A body matching feature for feature the report of this boy of two and a half missing for ten days, was found floating in a river Sunday in Auvers-sur-Oise (Val-d’Oise). An autopsy will now be carried out to verify that this is the child concerned and to determine the causes of death, said the prosecutor of Pontoise Yves Jannier with the Paris .

“These are residents of Auvers-sur-Oise who found him that afternoon, he was stuck between a boat and the bank” continued with the magistrtat AFP. “The body appears to be that of the little Marcus but it remains to identify and perform an autopsy to determine the causes of death,” he said. “There’s a good chance that either drowned, “he added.

The body of the boy was found” floating “in the river, a few kilometers downstream, at Auvers-sur-Oise, said a source close to the investigation. “The body should not be in that place for a long time, because the banks and the river had been explored from top to bottom” in this area and for several kilometers, the prosecutor said in AFP. Divers and sonar were used. The criminal investigation that had been opened for “worrying disappearance” will be reclassified as “the causes of death,” said the prosecutor.

Important research had been implemented and the floor Pontoise had told Thursday a judge investigations to find this Reunion boy who was on holiday with his mother in the Val-d’Oise when he disappeared. He had vanished Friday, April 24 while playing in the garden pavilion aunt located along the Oise, about thirty kilometers north of Paris.

With a call to volunteers launched by the gendarmerie, a battered large with over a thousand people was held in the forest of l’Isle Adam, very close, but nothing given “compelling”. The child’s father feared his kidnapping, but prosecutors never favored the trail of kidnapping.