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Ugo Maillard
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Nov. 28, 2024 at 2:34 p.m.
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Major advances in two Isère cold cases this Monday, November 25, 2024. A man is in police custody in Grenoble, suspected of the murder of a 15 year old girl in 1988 and that of a 40 year old woman in 2000 in the department, AFP learned on Wednesday from a source close to the matter.
This man was identified by his DNA, said this source, confirming information from RTL. He has been in police custody since Monday in the premises of the gendarmes of the research section of Grenoble (Isère).
Suspected of two murders
He is suspected of being involved in the murder of Leila Afif, killed in 2000 in La Verpillièreand in that of Nathalie Boyer, 15 years old, found with her throat slit in August 1988 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.
The Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes center (cold cases), created in 2022, has relaunched these two procedures. The suspect's custody can be extended up to 96 hours, said Corinne Herrmann, lawyer for Nathalie Boyer's family, joined byAFP.
The suspect's DNA was found on the seals of the Afif file and “the work of the Grenoble SR made it possible to make the connection” between these two cases which are the subject of the same investigation in Nanterre, he said. -she explained.
“Never too late to have a bit of truth”
Nathalie Boyer is one of the victims of the “disappeared from Isère” file which concerns nine disappearances or murders of children in the department between 1983 and 1996.
Contacted byAFPthe lawyer for Leila Afif's family, Wissam Mahlaoui, did not wish to communicate.
“This is excellent news, it is never too late to have a bit of truth,” reacted Me Corinne Herrmann, welcoming “the tremendous work of the “cold cases” pole and the Grenoble SR.”
“We finally became interested in Nathalie after 36 years” and the identification of a suspect is “hope for all the other cases in Isère”, she added.
With AFP
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