He is suspected by the Nanterre cold case of being the murderer of a 15-year-old girl and a 40-year-old woman.
A man was taken into police custody in Grenoble. He is suspected of the murder of a 15-year-old girl in 1988 and that of a 40-year-old woman in 2000 in the department, AFP learned on Wednesday from a source close to the case. This man was identified by his DNA, said this source, confirming information from RTL. He has been in police custody since Monday in the premises of the gendarmes of the research section of Grenoble (Isère).
The suspect would be involved in the murder of Leila Afif, killed in 2000 in La Verpillière, and in that of Nathalie Boyer, 15, found with her throat slit in August 1988 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. The cold-cases center (unresolved investigations) of Nanterre, created in 2022, relaunched these two procedures.
The “disappeared from Isère”
Nathalie Boyer is one of the victims of the “disappeared from Isère” which concerns nine disappearances or murders of children in the department between 1983 and 1996. Contacted by AFP, Leila Afif's lawyer, Wissam Mahlaoui, did not wish to communicate.
