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Former Ivory Coast player found dead

The body of former Ivory Coast international Steve Gohouri has been found in the Rhine, German police said on Saturday three weeks after he was reported missing.

Published: 3 January 2016 09:53 CET
Former Ivory Coast player found dead
Gohouri in his Borussia Mönchengladbach playing days. Photo: DPA

Police said the body of Gohouri, who won 13 caps for Ivory Coast, had been found in the river at Krefeld near Duesseldorf, German sports news agency SID reported.

Police said an autopsy found no signs of violence. They gave no indication as to other possible causes of death.

Gohouri, 34, had told his teammates he was heading to Paris to see his family but the former Wigan and Borussia Mönchengladbach defender never arrived.

His family travelled from France to Germany to report his disappearance.

Gohouri, who started his career at Paris Saint Germain but failed to make the first team, vanished after attending German fourth tier club TSV Steinbach's Christmas party on December 12.

 

Steinbach coach Thomas Brdaric noted after Gohouri went missing that “there is much speculation — but I hope it is not true — that he has personal problems and has abandoned his responsibilities.”

NORWAY

Body found in Oslo flat nine years after death

A man lay dead in his flat for nine years before being discovered in December, police in Oslo have said.

Published: 9 April 2021 11:20 CEST
Body found in Oslo flat nine years after death
Photo by pichet wong from Pexels

The man, who was in his sixties, had been married more than once and also had children, national broadcaster NRK reports.

His name has been kept anonymous. According to neighbours he liked to keep to himself and when they didn’t see him, they thought he had moved or been taken to assisted living.

“Based on the details we have, it is obviously a person who has chosen to have little contact with others,” Grethe Lien Metild, chief of Oslo Police District, told NRK.

His body was discovered when a caretaker for the building he was living in requested police open the apartment so he could carry out his work.

“We have thought it about a lot, my colleagues and people who have worked with this for many years. This is a special case, and it makes us ask questions about how it could happen,” Metild said.

Police believe the man died in April 2011, based on a carton of milk and a letter that were found in his apartment. An autopsy has shown he died of natural causes.

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His pension was suspended in 2018 when the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) could not get in touch with him, but his bills were still paid out of his bank account and suspended pension fund.

Arne Krokan, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, said the man’s death would have unlikely gone unnoticed for so long if he had died 30 years ago.

“In a way, it is the price we have paid to get digital services,” he said to NRK.

Last year 27 people were found in Oslo, Asker or Bærum seven days or more after dying. The year before the number was 32 people. Of these, one was dead for almost seven months before being discovered.

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