Women find 156,000 euros in dead brother's couch
Three sisters astonished French police when they handed over 156,000 euros that they had found stuffed into their brother's couch when clearing his apartment after his death.
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The women had come from Algeria to sort out their late brother's effects after his death at the age of 61 earlier this month.
They found the cash, in 100-euro and 500-euro notes, stuffed under the mattress of a sofa-bed in his council flat in the southern French city of Montpellier.
They also found a social security card and bank card belonging to their father, who had died at the age of 80 in 1995.
The son had concealed his father's death and continued to draw his 750-euro-a-month pension out of his father's bank account.
Investigators would like to know why he did not spend any of it and have hailed the "great honesty" of his sisters.
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