It castigates the inaction of justice. Christine Clément, whose father, a 59 -year -old agricultural machine repairer, was found dead on August 8, 1989, the bloody face, in Bédarrides (Vaucluse), formed an appeal against the State, learned Franceinfo, Tuesday May 6. In her assignment, consulted by Franceinfo, she denounces “heavy faults”, committed during the judicial inquiry, of which “The lack of education for years”, as well as “The loss of almost all seals”. The judicial court acknowledged receipt of this document, and a statement hearing is set for February 2, 2026.
In this case, the serial killer Francis Heaulme was suspected of the murder, before finally benefiting from a dismissal in 2002. More than twenty years laterjustice has reopened the file due to “new charges”, which led to the indictmentagain, in 2023, of the serial killer, to date sentenced to perpetuity for 11 murders. This cold case was sent in April 2024 At the national pole of serial or not elucidated crimes in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
The first indictment in this file by Francis Heaulme dates back to April 1992, after his police custody. He then recognized the murder of Jean-Joseph Clément, before retracting, “While keeping ambiguous statements”. A year later, the file had been transferred to Reims, where several procedures against Francis Heaulme were educated at the time. But from that moment, the instruction is “Totally abandoned”, According to Didier Seban and Marine Allali, the lawyers of Christine Clément. Until the jurisdiction renders an order of dismissal on December 18, 2002.
“During this instruction, almost integrality of the seals of the file were lost”, Is it detailed in the assignment against the State. Lawyers listed “36 missing seals”. The Avignon prosecution claims to have transmitted them to that of Reims in 1993, at the time of the transfer of the file. But in 2000, the Reims prosecutor’s office, requested by the investigating judge, failed to get their hands on these seals. Only the blood group card by Jean-Joseph Clément and a piece of paper with a phone number were found.
“Justice must today act with all the necessary speed.”
Christine Clément’s lawyersin franceinfo
“Christine Clément wishes by this assignment that the serious faults and the denial of justice committed against him are recognized by the State. It is abnormal that a file with a serial killer charged to be neglected for seven years, then forgotten by justice, forcing the civil party to fight for years for her reopening”exhibit at Franceinfo Didier Seban and Marine Allali.
