after the arrest of a suspect, Leila Afif's family has a “feeling of hope mixed with infinite sadness”, explains their lawyer Me Mahlaoui

The lawyer for Leila Afif's family “hopes” that “the next step” will be “the indictment of the suspect”.

After the arrest of a man suspected of the murder of Leila Afif, “the reaction from my customers has been mixed”confided, Saturday November 30, on France Bleu Isère, Me Wissam Mahlaoui, the family lawyer of this mother, was killed in La Verpillière (Isère) in 2000. She was then 40 years old.

“Now we have this feeling of hope mixed with infinite sadness because Leila Afif's children were very young when they lost their mother in dramatic circumstances. What we are waiting for is to know why Leila Afif was killed “he continues.

After 96 hours in police custody, the suspect, a sixty-year-old, was placed in pre-trial detention in Dijon, pending his transfer to the Nanterre cold case center (Hauts-de-Seine). He is also suspected of the murder of Nathalie Boyer, a 15-year-old minor, found with her throat slit in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère) in August 1988. Me Mahlaoui joins Leila Afif's family to greet “the considerable work of the Nanterre pole”.

The lawyer “hope“that “the next step” sera “the indictment of the suspect”. Then, he adds, “if thanks to our file, the Nathalie Boyer affair can also be clarified, it will be a satisfaction for us.” The suspect's DNA was found in the sealed file of Leila Afif's death.