The body of an eviscerated man with his throat slit open has been found in a sports ground in France.
The gruesome discovery was made on Monday morning in the small village of Pont-de-Metz in northern France on the sports ground by a person who had been out on a walk.
The corpse of the unnamed man was splayed out in a cross position, French newspaper Le Parisien reports.
Initial investigations have determined that the victim is a 32-year-old man.
The Amiens public prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation for what they believe to have been an ‘intentional homicide’.
It comes just days after the dead body of a young woman was found in rural France.
Floriane Roux, 31, was reported missing on July 23 before her corpse was uncovered by a police dog on July 28.
It was hidden in thick undergrowth in the village of Paunat, in the Dordogne department, east of Bordeaux.
The body of an eviscerated man with his throat slit open has been found in a sports ground in France
The gruesome discovery was made on Monday morning in the small village of Pont-de-Metz in northern France
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This is less than five miles from Trémolot, where 65-year-old mother of four Karen Carter was stabbed repeatedly before succumbing to her wounds outside her home on April 29.
The British-South African national had spent a night out with friends, before dying next to her car.
Florian Roux, who was French, had also been planning a night out with friends, before her body was found close to her Vauxhall Corsa.
Both deaths are now being investigated by local prosecutors, supported by judicial police and gendarmes.
The body was found by a dog, who was one of seven involved in a search organised by gendarmes from Bergerac, said the source.
A doctor pronounced Ms Roux dead at the scene, before police removed her body.
Neither the circumstances nor cause of Ms Roux’s death are yet known, and no theory – including the possibility of suicide – is being ruled out, said the source.
According to her her family, Ms Roux was supposed to meet a friend for the evening on July 23, but the friend claims not to have seen her.
An investigation was opened last week by the Bergerac prosecutor’s office into a ‘disturbing disappearance.’
It comes just days after the body of Floriane Roux (pictured) was discovered in the village of Paunat, in the Dordogne department, east of Bordeaux
Those questioned by police included Ms Roux’s boyfriend, whom she lived with in Montanceix, near Saint-Astier.
Meanwhile, Ms Carter had attended a wine tasting hosted by Jean-François Guerrier, her 75-year-old lover, in the hours before her death.
Both Mr Guerrier and Marie-Laure Autefort, another Trémolat resident said to have been passionately in love with him, were originally arrested, but then released without charge.
Ms Carter left the party at 10pm, and had promised to phone Mr Guerrier when she got home.
Concerned when he heard nothing, Mr Guerrier, a former managing director of Fujitsu Services who worked in Britain at one point, drove to check on her, and found her body sprawled on the driveway of the property she ran as a rental business.
Despite attempts to save her, Ms Carter died from severe blood loss, after being stabbed in the chest, groin, arm and leg, according to an autopsy.