Arrest Made After 4 Bodies Found in the Seine

A man currently in custody is suspected of killing more than one of four people recently found in the River Seine near Paris. Prosecutors said Wednesday that a man was arrested "on suspicion for multiple murders at the headquarters of the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police," Le Monde reports. A week before the arrest, a passerby spotted a body floating near a bridge in Choisy-le-Roi in Paris' southeastern suburbs. Police found three submerged bodies near the site. All four bodies were those of adult men.

Prosecutors said the first body, that of a local 40-year-old man, was "relatively well-preserved" but the three others were "a very advanced state of decomposition," suggesting they had been in the river for some time. Prosecutors said one man was strangled and the body of another showed signs of violence, the BBC reports. Authorities have not disclosed exactly how many murders the man in custody is suspected of. Investigators say the bodies could have been submerged in the river at different locations before being brought to the Choisy-le-Roi bridge by currents.