This Monday, December 16, 2024, Julien Courbet will host a new episode of the show Call for Witnesses. That evening, three new cases will be handled by the host's experts and viewers will be able to testify live to help their families while waiting for an answer on what happened to their loved ones. Among these cold cases, there is the Denise Le Pohon affair.
On September 8, 2018, this 78-year-old woman was attacked by a burglar, who hit her numerous times with a hammer, in her house in Brétigny-sur-Orge, in Essonne.
She died from her injuries. Denise Le Pohon is the sister of Irène Frain, this well-known writer.
The Denise Le Pohon affair examined in Call for witnesses
The latter will then throw herself wholeheartedly into the investigation which will allow us to understand what happened. If justice will initially conclude for a natural death, Irène Frain will release a book in 2020 entitled
A crime without importancewhich will force justice to reopen the investigation. This time, it is no longer a question of a natural death but of a death as a result of the blows suffered.
But for more than six years, no one has been able to get their hands on Denise Le Pohon's killer. “I had the impression that all this was not taken seriously. We presented my sister like a crazy old woman. What's more, the autopsy spoke of 'natural death'. We had to fight to prove that she had indeed died following the blows she received.”she indicated to
Parisian.
DNA traces that raise questions
In 2021, a man is arrested, with a genetic profile that could match the one who caused the death of Denise Le Pohon: “There is a DNA trace on this hammer. The difficulty, however, is that this DNA is not complete”, indicates Me Jean-Baptiste Laplace, lawyer at the Paris bar and lawyer for Irène Frain.
“We did not find it in sufficient quantity and in sufficient detail to be able to draw up an identity card of an author that could be compared by insertion in the national file to all those who are already referenced.”
