Four decades, and still no answer for Grégory Villemin’s family. This Wednesday, October 16, 2024 will mark the sad anniversary of the death of the little boy, found murdered in Vologne exactly forty years ago. Having become one of the largest French cold cases, as it remains unsolved despite numerous twists and turns over the years, the Grégory affair has aroused powerful fascination among the public and the media since 1984. Because for forty years now, journalists and visitors have been flocking to this Vosges valley, the scene of a sordid and particularly complex drama, which mixes mystery, anonymous harassment and family jealousy. A situation that has become absolutely “unbearable” for the inhabitants of the region, who describe their long ordeal in a report from France 3 Grand-Est published this Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
“Every year, people come to Lépanges-sur-Vologne specifically to see the place of Grégory Villemin’s disappearance, to photograph or film his old house and his grave,” explains Sébastien Liarte, teacher-researcher at the University of Lorraine and specialist in “dark tourism”, macabre tourism associated with death, “whether accidental, the result of a battle, a disaster or a crime”. Like the village of Mazan in the Pélicot affair, or that of Cagnac-les-Mines in the Jubillar affair, the commune of Lépanges-sur-Vologne has almost become a site of morbid pilgrimage for all (.. .)
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