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Man shot dead after suspected cannibal attack in France

Police discovered the body on Sunday evening.

A MAN SUSPECTED of beheading a 13-year-old boy in a cannibalism attack in southern France has been shot dead by police, a prosecutor said on Monday.

Police made the grisly discovery of a body and severed head on Sunday evening in an apartment in the town of Tarascon rented by a 32-year-old man with a psychiatric disorder, local public prosecutor Laurent Gumbau told AFP.

Gumbau said that an investigation into the disappearance of a boy from a care home in the city of Marseille, 100 kilometres to the east, had led police to the address in Tarascon.

“The body found may be that of the minor,” he said, adding that strips of flesh had been ripped from a shoulder, fuelling suspicion of cannibalism.

The man, who had previous convictions for acts of violence, fled the apartment over rooftops, according to neighbours.

The police eventually located him at another location in Tarascon three hours later and shot him dead, the prosecutor said.

He added that the suspect did not appear to have been armed at the time of his death and that he had not been formally identified as the killer of the person whose body was found in the apartment.

A police oversight body is investigating the circumstances of his killing and an autopsy has been ordered on both bodies.

© AFP 2021

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    Jul 19th 2021, 2:02 PM

    Thats horrendous, poor Kid.

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    Mute Valentine Kane
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    Jul 19th 2021, 2:28 PM

    What is wrong with people?

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    Jul 19th 2021, 3:34 PM

    @Valentine Kane: Unfortunately some people have serious mental issues which our societies no longer take responsibilities for. As such people who should be institutionalised are left out in their communities where no-one is able to monitor them or even make sure they are taking their medication.

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    Jul 19th 2021, 3:45 PM

    @Steve: I love that false notion we have that we used to better for these people. “Our society no longer takes responsibility for” – our society used to put single mothers in homes, we never came close to whatever you think we had

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    Jul 19th 2021, 5:23 PM

    @Big Smokey: What are you babbling on about? I’m talking about mental health issues and society as a whole (you know the world!) NOT Ireland and how it treated single mothers a few decades ago!

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    Jul 19th 2021, 7:30 PM

    @Steve: How would you define “serious mental issues” and what grounds would you use for locking people up against their will.

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    Jul 19th 2021, 9:30 PM

    @Damon16: The people with issues such as wanting to eat other people are likely who he is referring to.

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    Mute Michael Burke
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    Jul 19th 2021, 2:40 PM

    Human beings, capable of the most incredibly heroic, generous and kind actions. Also capable of despicable cruel, barbaric and heinous behaviour.

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    Jul 19th 2021, 2:55 PM

    @Michael Burke: yup…we ain’t that all evolved are we…let’s hope we make it to a more peaceful state of evolution.

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    Jul 20th 2021, 1:08 AM

    @Michael Burke: Indeed. Also, I hope they shot the actual killer and not some random burglar.

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    Jul 19th 2021, 2:29 PM

    What the actual fu¢k……….

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    Jul 19th 2021, 2:38 PM

    Sick

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    Jul 19th 2021, 3:21 PM

    Omg that’s just horrible. Freaks me out altogether

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    Jul 21st 2021, 6:53 AM

    Why shoot him if he wasn’t armed he had a lot of questions to answer

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