Paleopathologists from the University of Paris-Saclay (France) have described for the first time injuries sustained by a person being impaled. The results of the research have been published magazine legal medicine
The authors studied the remains of the executed Suleiman al-Khalebi, who killed Jean-Baptiste Kleber, the commander-in-chief of the French Eastern Army in Egypt in the summer of 1800. Suleiman al-Khalebi was impaled for this action.
The analysis showed that before the execution, the man’s hands were burned, and he also had several cracks on his chin. Then the executioner made a large incision in Solomon’s anus and inserted a stake into it – thus breaking his sacrum and part of the ischium.
Four hours later, the impaled man was still alive, possibly because one of the soldiers poisoned the man to end al-Khalebi’s persecution. A few years later, al-Khalebi’s remains were handed over to the French naturalist and naturalist Georges Leopold Cuvier. Currently, the remains are kept in the National Museum of Natural History (Paris).
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