The double murder case on rue de l'Éventailat Le Mans will it one day be elucidated? Twenty years after the factshe remains a mystery. During the night of Friday November 26 to Saturday November 27, 2004, Martine Chide57 years old, and Yves Belluardo66, were killed in their house, near the botanical garden. Significant resources were then deployed for the investigation with numerous men. But of this double crime, we only know with certainty the cause of the couple's death. Even the unfolding of the facts is based on the hypotheses of the investigators.
24 stab wounds
The latter believe that it was between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. when one or more individuals entered the house, probably breaking a window while the couple was sleeping upstairs. Yves Belluardo wakes up, starts to dress when he receives two bullets from a 22 long rifle then 11 stab wounds. His companion is also stabbed 13 times. Both will be found in their room. At the time, the violence of the events aroused strong emotion. Especially since the couple was known and appreciated. He was an actor on stage and in the cinema, as well as a theater teacher. She was a French teacher at Saint-Julien college.
The Nanterre cold case center resumes investigation
Why were they brutally killed? To date, no known leads: no suspect, no motive, no DNA trace. The murder weapons were never found. “The chances of knowing the truth are slim” concedes Maître Godard, the lawyer for Martine Chide's daughter who has been working on this case for 18 years. “But there is hope“. Since 2022, the file has been at the Nanterre cold case center (Serial or unsolved crimes unit) which took over the investigations.
