The recovery of a 35 million euro mansion in Paris has stopped after a 30-year frame rotting in the basement was discovered.
Located in the thriving district of Faubourg Saint-Germain, home to the French aristocracy for centuries, the desert has been empty since the 1980s.
It sold in January after a bidding war that lasted only 15 minutes.
The buyer, investment banker Jean-Bernard Lafonta, paid 35.1 million euros (29.9 million pounds), almost six times the reserve.
On February 26, technicians who were sent to guard the 17,000-square-foot ruined construction found a corpse under boards and debris, Le Monde reported.
The recovery of a 35 million euro mansion in Paris has stopped after the discovery of a 30-year-old rotting body in the basement (photo: the lawn covered with plants in the property’s courtyard)
Located in the thriving district of Faubourg Saint-Germain, home to the French aristocracy for centuries, the desert has been empty since the 1980s
The 17,000-square-foot construction is minutes from the Prime Minister’s official in the 7th arrondissement
“In February, just before closing, the paintings were going well. Debris trucks left the site every day,” Lebreton told the newspaper. Then, all of a sudden, everything stopped.
A homicide investigation was initiated after damaged bones and evidence of knife wounds on the body were discovered.
Identity documents allowed police to reveal that the victim, a drunken homeless man, Jean-Pierre Renaud, and forensic groups could have dated his disappearance about 30 years ago.
Walled windows of the street assets
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