Four dead bodies were found floating in Paris’ infamous Seine River — one year after the Summer Olympics as police announced an arrest in the suspected murders.
The four corpses were first reported by a train passenger who spotted one of the bodies floating in the infamously filthy waterway, which recently re-opened for public swimming for the first time in 100 years, near the French commune of Choisy-le-Roi on Aug. 13.
The gruesome discovery led police to arrest a 24-year-old Algerian man on suspicion of multiple murders, according to French newspaper Le Monde.
The Seine in Choisy-le-Roi on the outskirts of Paris on Aug. 14, 2025, a day after the bodies were discovered. AFP via Getty Images
Police found the first body, “relatively well-preserved,” and
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