TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Forensic description of impalement and associated torture lesions by Napoleon troops (Egypt, 1800)
JO  - Legal medicine (Elsevier)
A1  - Charlier, Philippe
A1  - Bourdin, Virginie
A1  - Huynh-Charlier, Isabelle
SP  - e102300
EP  - e102300
VL  - 65
IS  - 
N2  - Impalement bone traumas are very rarely described in the medical literature. We here present the first case of such a diagnosis carried out on a skeleton. The patient is Soleyman el-Halaby, executed in June 1800, who was the 24-year-old murderer of the Napoleonic general Kléber. The skeleton is now held in the National Museum of Natural History (Paris). This report describes the traumatic lesions diagnosed after a careful forensic anthropological examination. Such a case is important from a medical point of view, whether the origin of the pelvic or abdominal impalement is accidental or criminal. Forensic examination of skeletons conserved in anthropological collections may help reconstruct the modalities of death, and give data for an eventual repatriation process to the original community.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1344-6223
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2023.102300
ID  - ref1
ER  -