A quarter of a century. This is the time it took the police to arrest the man suspected of having killed Ginette Naime. Aged 61, he was arrested Tuesday morning by investigators from the OCRVP (Central Office for the Repression of Violence against Persons), who placed him in police custody in Toulon. He was indicted this Thursday by an investigating judge from the Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes unit, who has been seized of the case since the summer of 2022. “The facts are proven to everyone,” whispers a source close to the file, which welcomes the work accomplished by judicial police officials.
The body of this 46-year-old woman was discovered by walkers around 3:35 p.m. on April 13, 2000, on the Chemin du Gros Cerveau in Ollioules, in Var. He is stabbed to death. A few moments earlier, these witnesses saw a man fleeing in a vehicle. The victim is identified as Ginette Naime, a care assistant living in La Seyne-sur-Mer, who worked with elderly people. At the time, the police discovered that she had gone, on the day of the events around 2:30 p.m., to the municipal social action center. An employee told them he saw her sitting in the passenger seat in a car, and heard her screaming and banging on the window.
A suspect presented as a “drug addict”
Shortly after, around 2:50 p.m., she made two withdrawals from the BNP agency in La Seyne-sur-Mer. Another witness told police he noticed a man nearby watching the victim. His body, as we said, was found about forty minutes later, about 6 km away. The walkers who made the macabre discovery described the suspect seen to investigators: he was a man in his forties, dressed in a t-shirt stained with traces of blood. He fled in Ginette Naime's Seat Cordoba, which was found on April 17, 2000 in a city parking lot.
-Two judicial investigations were opened by the Toulon public prosecutor's office, one in 2000 and the other in 2016. Both were closed, due to failure to identify the murderer or his motive. In May 2023, the Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes center decided to relaunch the investigations by opening a preliminary investigation entrusted to the OCRVP. The PJ sleuths start the case from scratch. A call for witnesses was broadcast last June, in video form, in the hope of obtaining information. But he doesn't give anything. According to our information, a few months later they collected information concerning “marginal people, drug addicts who were hanging out in La Seyne-sur-Mer,” says a source close to the matter. Among them, “one guy fit well” with the description of the suspect given by the witnesses.
Suspect's DNA discovered on victim
The DNA found under the victim's nails matched that of the forty-year-old arrested on Tuesday. His motive? “He was probably looking for money because he was craving drugs. But it’s not certain that he wanted to kill her initially,” a police source told us. He was indicted this Thursday evening for “extortion with a weapon and murder preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime”, indicates the Nanterre prosecutor’s office. 20 Minutes. He was placed in pre-trial detention.
