Ludovic Bertin is known to the courts for theft, receiving stolen goods, traffic offenses and carrying a prohibited weapon. In total, his criminal record includes ten convictions between 2013 and 2019. In 2020, when Victorine Dartois disappears on her way home to her parentson a Saturday evening in September, Ludovic Bertin is married and father of a child. The man runs a transport company and lives in Villefontaine, 800 meters from Victorine's home. But, the investigation will show, they did not know each other.
At that time, Ludovic Bertin was using drugs and, on the evening of the murder, he was high on cocaine. After killing Victorine, he confided in his best friend, explaining that he had gone hunting for prey “to rape her”. That he wouldn't have succeeded and that he would have strangled her. That evening, September 26, he left on foot, voluntarily without his phone, so as not to be geolocated. Hearing this confession, this witness then decided to warn the police, also out of fear that his friend would commit suicide.
A completely different version of the facts
Ludovic Bertin has a completely different version of the facts. According to him, he was jogging that evening when he bumped into Victorine without doing it on purpose. According to him, she then insulted him and he got angry, then squeezed her neck twice.
After his arrest in prison, he wrote to the victim's family to ask for their forgiveness. But Victorine's family is convinced that he is lying. Because, from this Monday, Ludovic Bertin also appears for the rape of another young girl. It was in 2018, also named Victorine, a rape that, again, he denies having committed. For these facts, he faces life imprisonment.
