Iran Press/ Europe: According to a police source, the woman, who was also German, was discovered with her head shaved in a bedroom of the flat, had several bruises, and was malnourished, and most likely tortured.
After an assessment by the local forensic medicine department, local prosecutor Olivier Glady said that her health was "not good."
He stated that blood tests revealed that she was not significantly dehydrated. "The cursor is probably moving away from a scenario of horror, towards unsatisfactory conditions of the care of a sick person," Glady said.
"The current state of investigation appears us to move away from the specter of a Bluebeard of the Moselle region," the prosecutor added, a reference to "Bluebeard," a French folk tale about a wealthy man who murders his wives.
Police revealed that the bedroom and other rooms in the apartment were closed off with metal wire at the flat in Forbach in eastern France, near the German border. Glady added that the setup may have been meant to keep the household's 10 cats in.
According to a police source, the woman, 53, gained access to a phone and called police in Wiesbaden, western Germany, who then notified their French counterparts.
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