Des véhicules de police. (Illustration)

Police vehicles. (Illustration) – Thibaut Gagnepain / Minutes

Terrible discovery on Sunday evening Méan-Penhoët district at Saint Nazaire. The bloody and inanimate body of an old man of years old was found by a resident at the bottom of a building. He died a few minutes later despite the intervention of firefighters and Samu, reports the national police.

The investigators quickly identified the victim who lived on the third floor. In his apartment, they discovered a bloody cutter on the balcony, as well as a note left by the victim. The hypothesis of a suicide is therefore privileged.

“After examining the body, it appeared that the victim had self-harmed with the cutter by severing his right side of the neck, and that the body fell from the

third floor by tilting by- above the balcony railing, ”said the police. The victim presented several internal fractures.