 The son of Chad's president was found dead with a head wound Monday in the basement of his apartment building in a Paris suburb, and authorities were treating the case as a murder investigation, judicial officials said.
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The building's caretaker found Brahim Deby's body early Monday, the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said. It said Deby appeared to have died violently and police were investigating the case as homicide. The body was found in a corridor between the underground parking lot and a flight of stairs in the building in Courbevoie, west of Paris.
| Are they sure he didn't fall down the stairs and land on the bullet? |
An autopsy was to be performed later Monday, prosecution officials said.
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"It's another dead body, Dr. Qunicy. You've seen those before."
"Sure, Sam, but the RAB is much neater. What a mess this one is!" |
In Chad, President Idriss Deby's office said the Chadian leader was aware of the death but had no other details. Brahim Deby, 27, was the president's oldest son and had no official government post, according to the president's office, which added that the Chadian president was in Ghana Monday for an African Union summit.
Brahim Deby was convicted of drugs and weapons charges in June 2006. A Paris court gave him a suspended six-month jail sentence for possession of drugs and illegally carrying a weapon.
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