Man detained in France after 4 bodies found in Paris’ River Seine

Paris —

A man in France has been detained on suspicion of murder after four bodies were found in Paris’ River Seine earlier this month.

The suspect, who prosecutors described as a “homeless man in his twenties,” was brought before a judicial court on Sunday, the Créteil Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement to CNN.

He is being investigated for “multiple counts of murder” in respect to the four victims, all of whom were men, the prosecutor’s office said.

On August 13, the bodies of the four men were discovered in the Parisian municipality of Choisy-le-Roi in varying states of decomposition.

The alarm was raised after a passenger on a train overlooking the river saw a body floating in the water, according to public broadcaster FranceInfo .

The body of one man, who was late