Twenty-four years later, the Serial or Unsolved Crime Unit (PCSNE) of the Nanterre judicial court (Hauts-de-Seine) is counting on your help. A call for witnesses has been launched to try to solve the murder of Ginette Naime, a 46-year-old woman whose lifeless body was discovered on a trail in the Gros Cerveau massif in Ollioules (Var) on April 13, 2000.
That day, his body was found by walkers, stabbed with stab wounds. A few minutes earlier, they had seen an individual who fled “at their sight while they were on the Gros Cerveau road in Ollioules”, explains the public prosecutor of Nanterre, Pascal Prache, in a video broadcast on the website of the Ministry of the Interior.
A vehicle discovered a week later
According to investigations by the Central Office for the Repression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP), on the day of the events, Ginette Naime went to the municipal social action center of La Seyne-sur-Mer around 2:30 p.m. “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 left,” details an OCRVP investigator in the video.
According to investigators, 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 be watching the victim,” according to investigations.
The body of Ginette Naime was discovered at 3:35 p.m., “stabbed multiple times”. Witnesses immediately notified the police, giving them information about the person they had seen fleeing in a car. The vehicle was found empty a week later.
“We need your testimonies”
In 2000, a first judicial investigation was opened by the Toulon public prosecutor’s office for murder, closed in 2008. In 2016, another judicial investigation was opened, finally closed in 2020. In the summer of 2022, the Serial or Non-Serial Crimes Unit elucidated (PCSNE) of the Nanterre judicial court had taken up the case and had entrusted the resumption of the investigations to investigators from the Central Office for the Repression of Violence against Persons, explains Pascal Prache.
“To date, the author has still not been identified,” continues the Nanterre public prosecutor. “We need your testimonies to identify the author of this murder,” adds one of the investigators in the video. “The witnesses describe the author as a Mediterranean man, around forty years old, measuring approximately 1m75, approximately 80 kg and with significant bloodstains on his clothes,” explains the prosecutor.
This format of online calls for witnesses was launched last April by the “cold case” division, drawing inspiration from the codes of news programs. “This new call for witnesses aims to collect new testimonies on these disappearances from the general public, to advance the investigations,” underlines the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office.
At the beginning of June, a 28-year-old man was arrested and indicted ten years after the murder of Micheline Grandin, a 78-year-old woman, beaten to death at her home in Draguignan (Var), on January 12, 2014, as Le Parisien recently explained.
