While making his rounds, the forester noticed a body in the treetop, at a height of several meters. As it turned out, it was a man. Investigators are now establishing his identity by searching, among other things, a missing persons database. It is also unknown how and when he died.
A forester found the man's body on Thursday, November 21, in the forest in Zwanowice. He immediately called the police.
– The investigation is being conducted under the supervision of the prosecutor's office. The man's body was already in a significant state of decomposition, we are establishing his identity. We are now waiting for the autopsy results. We are also searching the database of missing persons, said senior aspirant Patrycja Kaszuba, press officer of the District Police Headquarters in Brzeg.
The case was first reported by the portal opolska360.pl.
“There are preliminary guesses as to identity”
The District Prosecutor's Office in Brzeg is conducting an investigation into unintentional manslaughter.
– The circumstances of death are not clear, it is being determined. There are preliminary guesses as to the man's identity related to the search for one of the people, but this will only be confirmed by genetic tests – told us Prosecutor Stanisław Bar, spokesman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Opole
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