Corpse found at AirBnB rented house in France
A group of friends who rented a house on Airbnb for a weekend party near Paris had a nasty shock on Saturday when they found the decomposing body of a woman in the garden. Police suspect foul play but had been unable to identify the body on Monday.
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The friends rented the house in Palaiseau, 17 kilometres south of Paris, on home-sharing website Airbnb and went there for a weekend away.
But they found the woman's corpse at the bottom of the garden where it opens onto woods, a police source said.
It was dressed but not wearing shoes and "hunched in a dug-out area, her head against the ground, covered in branches and surrounded by wood stumps", said the source.
No documents were found that could identify the woman, who had a ring with a large stone on her finger.
The advanced state of decomposition made it impossible to determine a cause of death and an autopsy will be carried out.
The renters were questioned about their grisly find on Sunday.
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