9月17日，法国司法部门有关人士表示，该国马赛市一位现年60多岁的男子已与其母亲的尸体共同生活了5年，他的目的是继续领取本属于其母的每月700欧元的养老金。

据路透社9月17日报道，这名男子是当地某医院太平间的工作人员，他的母亲已于94岁高龄时因自然原因而去世了。近日，警方在他位于市中心的公寓房内存放的垃圾里发现了他母亲的尸体， 9月17日，法国司法部门以欺诈和藏匿尸体的罪名对这名男子提出了起诉。

报道说，警方之所以来到那套公寓是因为该男子拖欠了房租及其它一些帐单。

A Frenchman in his sixties lived for five years with the body of his dead mother to keep receiving her 700 euros (473 pounds) monthly pension, judicial sources said on Saturday.

The man, a hospital morgue worker, is to be prosecuted for fraud and concealing a death on Saturday after police found the corpse in a two-room apartment in the city centre in piles of rubbish.

Police went to the flat because of unpaid rent and other bills. The man had imitated an old woman’s voice to deceive the social services.

His mother had died of natural causes at the age of 94.