Thirteen years after his disappearance, will we finally know the truth in the Mathis Jouanneau affair? Sylvain Jouanneau, sentenced in 2015 to 20 years of imprisonment for the kidnapping and sequestration of his son, 8 years old, in 2011, still missing, was indicted, this time for murder, we learned on Tuesday from judicial sources.
“Mathis’s father was indicted for the murder of his son on April 19, 2024,” a judicial Source told AFP, confirming information from France 3 Normandie.
The child’s father was convicted in 2015 for kidnapping and confining his son. This former divorced executive turned mason had never brought Mathis back to his mother on September 4, 2011, in Caen, as he should have done at the end of his weekend custody rights.
Sylvain Jouanneau was sentenced to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Calvados Assize Court for the kidnapping and kidnapping of his son. An investigation was opened at the same time for murder.
DNA analysis
“Incarcerated for his 2015 conviction and released in May 2028, he was placed in pre-trial detention under a criminal committal warrant, this detention is motivated by the fact that he could have benefited from sentence adjustments before May 2028 in connection with his first conviction”, according to the same judicial Source, specifying that he had been placed in police custody at the start of the year.
“There are issues of inconsistency, the fact that it was the last to have seen him alive, the fact that several people saw him alone after having kidnapped him or even that we found the DNA of the child on the floor mat of the trunk of the car he used. This suggests that a body was lying inside,” said this Source, adding that this DNA analysis “had not been carried out” before.
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On Tuesday, the investigating chamber of the Caen Court of Appeal, contacted by the defendant who contested his pre-trial detention, confirmed his placement in detention in this aspect of the case, according to the same Source.
Contacted by AFP, his lawyer, Me Félix Gluckstein, did not wish to comment. In 2015, the police unsuccessfully launched a call for witnesses with a portrait of the aged child.
