Citation

Partoune A, Berrendorf M, Dechamps V, Boxho P. J. Med. Leg. Droit Med. 2019; 62(4): 27-31.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Masson)

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Abstract

From a forensic perspective, hand-grenade suicide is a rare and thus under-studied situation. We report here the case of a man who ended his life with a defensive Frag Gren M72 hand-grenade where forensic examination of the body and the environment conclusively identify the explosive used and allow us to hypothesize the subject's position at the time of the explosion. The moral, legal and hygienic obligation to completely recover the body has also provided us the opportunity to quantify its fragmentation and its dispersion caused by the explosion. In that particular case, we observed that the explosion has scattered 403 macroscopic parts over an elliptical zone of 1737 square metre (88,5 metres by 25 metres). © 2019, Editions Alexandre Lacassagne. All rights reserved.

Language: fr

Keywords

human; suicide; Suicide; Forensic; male; morality; forensic medicine; legal aspect; explosion; explosive; Article; Explosive; dispersion; Dispersion; Hand-grenade