Arrested on November 25 in Burgundy, the retiree was indicted and imprisoned on Monday December 2, 2024 for murder in the case of the missing people from Isère. He is suspected of having killed Reunionese Nathalie Boyer, 15, in 1988 and Leila Afif, 40, in 2000. The suspect, who denies the facts, is placed in detention, according to information from Le Parisien.
Five days after his arrest, in the early morning in his partner's apartment, in Dijon (Côte-d'Or), Mohammed C. was indicted this Monday by an investigating judge from the cold-case division of the court of Nanterre, for the murders of Nathalie Boyer and Laïla Afif.
These two cases belong to the so-called “disappeared from Isère” file taken up since 2022 by this center specializing in unsolved cases.
According to Le Parisien, Mohammed C. was confused by DNA traces found on various objects linked to the crime scene concerning Laïla Afif.
The “work of the SR (research section) of Grenoble made it possible to make the connection” between these two cases, explained to AFP Maître Corinne Herrmann, lawyer for Nathalie Boyer's family.
“The charges against him are totally contested. He is upset. The courts come for him and speak to him about very old facts. He is also upset by the detention,” his lawyers, Maîtres Émilie Boyé and Pierre-Vincent, told the media. Connault, of the Dijon bar.
– Suspected murderer arrested in Burgundy –
This man in his sixties was arrested on Monday November 25 in Burgundy and placed in police custody in the premises of the gendarmes of the Grenoble research section after being identified by his DNA.
His police custody was lifted on Friday morning. He was then presented to a judge of freedoms and detention of the Dijon judicial court, who had placed him in detention, pending his transfer to Nanterre.
He is suspected of being involved in the murder of Leïla Afif, killed in 2000 in La Verpillière, and in that of Reunion Islander Nathalie Boyer, 15, found with her throat slit in August 1988 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.
– Reunion Islander Nathalie Boyer, killed in 1988 –
Nathalie Boyer, a teenager from Reunion Island, disappeared on August 2, 1988 at the end of the day, in Villefontaine, not far from the home of Mohammed C., already established in the region at the time of the events. The schoolgirl, who lived in a hostel, was visiting her mother and never reappeared.
The body of Nathalie Boyer was found on August 4, 1988, on the side of a railway track, by a railway worker. The autopsy determined at the time that the young Reunion woman had her throat slit, without having suffered sexual violence.
The Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes center (“cold cases”), created in 2022, relaunched these two procedures, now joined.
Nathalie Boyer is one of the victims of the “disappeared from Isère” file which concerns nine disappearances or murders of children in the department between 1983 and 1996.
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