The body of a man was found with his eyes gouged out, Wednesday January 1, 2025, in an apartment in the 8th arrondissement of Marseille. A 49-year-old woman present at the crime scene was arrested.
A horror scene in Marseille to start this new year. According to information from the daily La Provence, a man was found dead, his eyes gouged out and sunk in their sockets in an apartment in the Sainte-Anne district, in the 8th arrondissement of the Marseille city, on Wednesday January 1, 2025.
The victim was discovered in a “discreet secure residence, located at the end of a quiet avenue”. Information confirmed by BFM Marseille from a judicial source. At the scene, a neighbor raised the alarm at the stroke of 10 a.m. by warning the firefighters. It was the latter who found the man’s body in a pool of blood, inside an apartment to which she had the key.
An investigation opened for intentional homicide
When help arrived, the victim was “in a state of rigidity” according to the 24-hour news channel, and was declared dead. She had probably been dead for several days.
At the scene of the crime, a 49-year-old woman was arrested by the police. According to La Provence, she lived in the apartment in question and was on the scene when the emergency services and the police intervened.
Considered suspicious, she was placed in police custody before claiming to remember nothing, the newspaper said. The Marseille prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into intentional homicide, entrusted to the territorial crime division.