A man in his sixties was placed in police custody, suspected of being involved in two cold cases in Isère 24 and 36 years ago, franceinfo learned from a source close to the case this Wednesday, confirming information of RTL. He is heard by investigators from the Grenoble research section. This man, identified by his DNA, was taken into police custody on Monday. This police custody can last up to 96 hours, and therefore ends tomorrow Thursday.
Arrested Monday in Burgundy
The suspect was arrested Monday, November 25 at dawn in Burgundy. The gendarmes suspect him of being involved in the death in 2000 of Leila Afif, found shot to death in La Verpillère (Isère) and of Nathalie Boyer, a 15-year-old minor, found with her throat slit in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère) in August 1988. This source indicates that it was DNA found in the seals of the death file of Leila Afif which ultimately made it possible to identify this suspect. These two cases have been taken up by the Nanterre cold case unit (Hauts-de-Seine) since 2022, in support of the “cold case” section of the gendarmerie, the National Division of Unresolved Cases (DIANE).
