Paris: a suspect arrested after the discovery of a dead man at his home, his throat partly cut

A 63-year-old suspect of no fixed address was arrested and placed in police custody as part of the investigation opened after the discovery on November 7 of a man with his throat partially cut and numerous facial injuries in his apartment in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, AFP learned Thursday, November 12 from a police source.

The man was arrested as part of a “search warrant for the alleged perpetrator of a murder,” according to this source.

An investigation into intentional homicide opened

On November 7, an alert was given by a resident of the victim's building, intrigued that the door of one of his neighbors had been open for two hours, according to another police source. Dispatched to the scene, the police discovered the body of a man lying on a bed, hidden under a duvet, in a bedroom of the apartment. The victim had numerous injuries on his face and cut wounds on his neck, his throat being partly cut, described the police source, specifying that the apartment was in disorder.

According to Le Parisien, the victim, whose name was Jimmy, was 54 years old. This man had, according to the newspaper which cites testimonies from neighbors, the habit of inviting homeless people from the neighborhood for noisy and alcoholic evenings. According to the newspaper, the investigation very quickly focused on one of these men whom the victim saw regularly.