In its judgment, the Court of Cassation judged “that there is no reason to grant the request” dated January 20 of the Attorney General at the Orleans Court of Appeal which advanced “structural and cyclical reasons”, in particular the lack of means of the Court, to ask to “repel the trial”. The mother of the little girl whose body had been found in a ditch of the A10 motorway near Blois in August 1987 was prosecuted for “torture and acts of barbarism that led to death” and her father for “complicity”, recalls Ouest-France.
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The trial of the girl’s parents could not be held “before the end of 2026 or early 2027”, in particular for reasons “linked to the state of health” of magistrates, or to the seat of the court which would not be adapted to this “very media trial”, argued the public prosecutor’s office. Due to her swollen face, the identity of the little girl had not been established until her burial in the village cemetery with the epitaph “here rests an angel”. It took thirty good years for the investigators to discover that it was the little inass, of Moroccan origin.
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It was thanks to the DNA of her brother, arrested in 2016 in a case of violence, that the investigators managed to go back to the parents of the little girl. Of Moroccan origin, the couple who had seven children, had been indicted in 2018 for “murder”, “concealment of corpse” and “usual violence in minor under the age of 15”. Today aged 71 and 73, they will be tried for “torture and acts of barbarism that led to death” for the mother and “complicity” for the father.
