By Le Figaro with AFP
Published
January 17 at 11:38 a.m.,
updated January 17 at 12:33 p.m.
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He was arrested and taken into custody earlier this week. He is suspected of the assassination of Ginette Naime, whose body was found with stab wounds on a path in the town of Ollioules.
A 61-year-old man was indicted on Thursday for the murder of Ginette Naime in April 2000 in Ollioules (Var), the Nanterre prosecutor's office said in a press release.
The Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes center, or “cold cases” center, which has been handling the case since the summer of 2022, opened a preliminary investigation in May 2023 entrusted to the Central Office for the Repression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP). ) in order to relaunch the investigations.
“The careful resumption of the investigation by the OCRVP investigators over the last two years, including the new hearing of several witnesses to the facts and the presentation of photographic plates (…), allowed the identification of a man aged 61”indicates the public prosecutor in a press release.
-This man, placed in police custody on Tuesday in Toulon, was presented to an investigating judge on Thursday and then indicted for “extortion with a weapon and murder preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime”, before being placed in pre-trial detention, adds the same source.
Walkers had seen an individual flee
A first judicial investigation for assassination was opened in Toulon between 2000 and 2008, then a second between 2016 and 2020. The body of Ginette Naime, 46, was found by walkers with stab wounds on April 13, 2000 on a trail in Ollioules.
These walkers had previously seen an individual fleeing “at their sight while they were on the path from Gros Cerveau to Ollioules”explained the Nanterre public prosecutor's office in a video call for witnesses broadcast on the website of the Ministry of the Interior last June. According to the OCRVP police officers, Ginette Naime went to the municipal social action center of La Seyne-sur-Mer around 2:30 p.m. on the day of the events.
“An employee heard a woman screaming and from his window he saw a woman in a vehicle, on the front passenger side, knocking on the window, then the car drove away”detailed an investigator in the video. According to the investigation, the victim then made two money withdrawals from the BNP agency in La Seyne-sur-Mer. A witness noticed “the presence of a man opposite, appearing to watch the victim”according to investigations.
The body of Ginette Naime was discovered at 3:35 p.m. “stabbed multiple times”. Witnesses immediately alerted the police, giving them information about the person they had seen fleeing in a car.
