A man in his sixties was taken into custody on Monday by the gendarmes from the Grenoble research section. He is suspected of being involved in the assassination of a teenager from Reunion in 1988 and in the shooting death of a mother in 2000 in the department of Isère.
Caught up by his DNA. A man in his sixties has been in police custody since the beginning of the week. The gendarmes from the Grenoble research section suspect him of being involved in two criminal cases dating back more than 20 years, unsolved cases, also called Cold cases.
The shooting death of Leïla Afif in 2000… And that of Nathalie Boyer. Originally from Reunion Island, the young girl disappeared from the family home on August 3, 1988, in Villefontaine in Isère.
His body was found the next day in a neighboring town, along a railway line in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.
Her throat was slit but the autopsy revealed no trace of sexual violence.
At the time, however, the investigators’ first suspicions turned towards a couple of neighbors of the victim’s family. Famous people to invite young girls in their apartment and subject them to sexual acts, as reported by our colleagues from France 3.
After several weeks of investigation, the couple was exonerated.
A few years later, in 1994, a man working in England was also suspected before being cleared.
The arrest of a new suspect at the beginning of the week is a test for the family.
“These are extremely intense moments where all the feelings mix: anger, relief, the desire to know more”, explains on the microphone of France Bleu Isère, Me Corinne Herrmann, the lawyer for the family of the victim, specialist in unsolved criminal cases.
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