Mohammed C., suspected of being involved in two cold cases in Isère, indicted for homicides

JUSTICE – Cold cases soon to be resolved? A man suspected of the murder of a 15-year-old girl in 1988 and that of a 40-year-old woman in 2000 in Isère was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention this Monday, December 2, the AFP reported. Nanterre public prosecutor's office confirming information from Parisian.

The suspect, Mohammed C., “was presented today before the investigating magistrate, who indicted him” for the two homicides, said the public prosecutor. “He was then placed in pre-trial detention by a judge of freedoms and detention of Nanterre”added the prosecution.

This man in his sixties was arrested and placed in police custody last week in the premises of the gendarmes of the Grenoble research section after being identified by his DNA found on objects from the scene of the crime committed. in 2000.

Mohammed C. was imprisoned

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 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 Nathalie Boyer, 15, found with her throat slit in August 1988 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. “The charges against him are completely disputed. He is upset. Justice comes to get him and tells him about very old facts. He is also upset by the detention,” his lawyers declared to Parisian.

The center of serial or unsolved crimes (the « cold cases ») of Nanterre, created in 2022, relaunched these two procedures, now joined. 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.

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