Suspected of having killed Nathalie Boyer, a young teenager from Reunion, in 1988 and another woman in 2000, the sixty-year-old arrested at the beginning of the week should be presented to an investigating judge in Nanterre in the coming days.
The police custody of the man suspected of the murder of a 15-year-old girl from Reunion in 1988 and that of a 40-year-old woman in 2000 in Isère was lifted on Friday morning, said the Nanterre prosecutor's office, requested by the AFP.
The suspect was presented Friday morning to a judge of freedoms and detention of the Dijon judicial court “as part of the execution of an arrest warrant from the investigating magistrate, pending his transfer for the purpose of presentation to the investigating judge of the pole in Nanterre in the coming days”said the prosecution.
This man in his sixties had been identified by his DNA, and had been in police custody since Monday in the premises of the gendarmes of the research section of Grenoble (Isère). He is suspected of being involved in the murder of Leila Afif, killed in 2000 in La Verpillière, and in that of Nathalie Boyer, 15, found with her throat slit in August 1988 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.
The Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes center (“cold cases”), created in 2022, relaunched these two procedures, now joined.
The suspect's DNA was found on the seals of the Afif file and “the work of the SR (research section) of Grenoble made it possible to make the connection” between these two cases, Me Corinne Herrmann, lawyer for Nathalie Boyer's family, explained to AFP. 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.
