The 61-year-old man was remanded in custody. The investigation was reopened by the “cold cases” unit of the Nanterre judicial court.
Published on 17/01/2025 15:30
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A step forward thanks to the “cold case” pole. A 61-year-old man was indicted on Thursday January 16 for the murder of Ginette Naime in April 2000 in Ollioules (Var), the Nanterre prosecutor's office announced on Friday. The Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes unit, which has been dealing with 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”explained the public prosecutor. 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.
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 way to Gros Cerveau in Ollioules”, explained the Nanterre public prosecutor's office in a video call for witnesses broadcast on the website of the Ministry of the Interior in June.
