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Today in Toulon, France, an unidentified man threw a cardboard box out of an upper story apartment window onto the street below in the downtown area. The box was found to contain a severed head. Police have taken the man into custody. He is described as 40 years of age, but no name is given. Police say they have ruled out a terrorist motive.
The Dutch news site, Dagelijkse Standaard (not translated) has three videos in the link below.
https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2021/02/opnieuw-afschuwelijk-drama-in-frankrijk-afgehakt-hoofd-uit-raam-gegooid-in-toulon/
We are working on appropriate translations into English.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/faits-divers/var-un-carton-contenant-une-tete-tranchee-decouvert-en-plein-centre-ville-de-toulon-20210201
*Update: Here is a report from Paris Match translated by Fousesquawk.
https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Faits-divers/Toulon-une-tete-tranchee-decouverte-dans-un-carton-jete-par-la-fenetre-1722950
Toulon: Severed head discovered in carton thrown out of window
-Paris Match-Posted Feb. 1, 2021 at 18:44
A severed head was discovered in a carton thrown out of a window of an apartment in Toulon Monday. One man has been arrested.
A man was arrested Monday afternoon in the heart of Toulon after the discovery of a severed head in a cardboard box thrown out of the window of an apartment, Agence France Presse learned from police sources, who ruled out a priori any terrorist trail. The alert was given shortly before 14:30, when passersby saw the carton fall from a window of an apartment on Cours Lafayette, a short distance from the harbor, a spokesperson of DDSP of Var, stated to AFP, confirming initial information from the regional daily, Var Matin.
At the window, a man appeared with his hands full of blood
Shortly after the arrival of the police at the scene, and notably a team from BAC (Anti-Criminality Brigade), a man appeared at the window of the apartment, his hands full of blood, resulting in the use of RAID police to trigger an intervention. The arrest took place around 3 pm after the police broke through the door behind which the suspect had barricaded himself. None of the police were injured during the operation, and the man was arrested, alone in the apartment, unarmed.
"No element allows us to connect this act to a terrorist event," the Department of Public Security (DDSP) of Var, in charge of the case, insisted to AFP.
According to other police sources, the recovered head could be that of one of two homeless persons who had spent the night in this apartment. An intervention by the municipal police took place during the night due to a fight, according to the same sources. Other than the victim and the person arrested, nobody else was found in the apartment during the police intervention. "This unspeakable act is an expression of the worst of human madness, pushed to its outburst, can produce," reacted the mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, in a statement, noting that, "the motivations of the individual who committed this barbaric act are not yet known". Still, according to the first magistrate of the city, "An investigation is underway, and it seems to be moving toward a horrible news item."
*Update: Local French news outlet, Var Matin, has published what they think is a photo of the suspect being led out of the building by French police.
Partial translation from above article:
It is a man of 40 years, military in the national Navy. In theory active, but hasn't not (reported) for work, according to this source.
The Toulon Prosecutor's Office says that "the man is unknown in the files of radicalized persons, and unknown to Taj,"- the files of processing of judicial records of police. "There is no element that leads to terrorist trail," states Dominique Mirkovic, Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic.
* Update: February 4, 2021
Var Matin reports that based on surveillance cameras that show a third man entering and leaving the apartment shortly before the incident, that suspect has been arrested. Both are unidentified to the public. The third man was arrested in an inebriated condition.
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