The truck was parked near a Total Energies petrol station roughly 100 metres from the closest motorway toll booth.
According to local newspaper Gazette Live Nimes, the body of the driver was found after a fellow trucker from Romania, who worked for the same Lithuanian haulier, had reached out to staff at the petrol station having been worried about a lack of contact from his colleague.
Police were eventually were called to the scene due to a strong smell emanating from the trucker’s cabin.
It was then that officers discovered the lorry driver had been stabbed multiple times. It is thought that the Ukrainian had died anything between 24-48 hours before his body was discovered by officers.
The autopsy carried out on Wednesday July 19th has since revealed the sheer harrowing brutality of the driver’s death. Gazette Live Nimes writes that the driver had been stabbed almost 90 times with a 15cm-kong knife, and had had his throat slit.
Judicial police have taken over the homicide investigation and have seized CCTV footage from all cameras in the area.
The motive for the homicide remains totally unclear.
Gazette Live Nimes writes that the scene of the crime is “seemingly a place of homosexual meetings”. It is nonetheless important to stress that there is not yet any reported evidence whatsoever linking this with the homicide.
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