Monday, December 2, Mohammed C., 63, was indicted for the murders of Nathalie Boyer, in 1988, and Laïla Afif, in 2000, and placed in pre-trial detention.
The noose is tightening around Mohammed C. A week after his arrest, this 63-year-old man of Moroccan origin was indicted for the assassination of Leïla Afif, in 2000, and the murder of Nathalie Boyer, in 1988 He was subsequently placed in pre-trial detention by a freedom and detention judge in Dijon, Paris Match learned. He was arrested on Monday November 25 after being confused by his DNA in the Boyer affair, the investigation of which was reopened by the cold case unit of the Nanterre court in 2022.
To the “Parisien”, his lawyers, Me Émilie Boyé and Pierre-Vincent Connault, of the Dijon bar affirm that “the charges with which he is accused are completely contested. He is upset. Justice comes to get him and tells him about very old facts. He is also upset by the detention,” they lamented, assuring that his partner, with whom he has shared his life in Dijon for five years, “totally supports him.” Leïla Afif's daughter, Dounia, assured in the columns of “Ouest-France” that her mother “knew the suspect”.
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The young woman indicates that she knows her family “very well”. “We are friends,” she insists. They are devastated to hear the news. »
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Investigations reopened in 2022
On August 3, 1988, Nathalie Boyer, a 15-year-old girl, disappeared from her mother's house during the holidays. She was found with her throat cut the next day, in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, in Isère. But, due to a lack of serious leads, the investigation into the murder of the teenager was dismissed after 3 years and between 1991 and 2022, not a single investigating judge seized this file.
In the meantime, on May 12, 2000, Laïla Afif, a mother of five children, disappeared between her home in Vaulx-Milieu and Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, in Isère, where she was to enroll her eldest in BEP. After five days of searching, her lifeless body was discovered in the Bourbre canal and the autopsy revealed that she had died of a gunshot to the neck. But for more than twenty years, the investigators continued to go astray and the investigation never saw a twist.
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In 2022, the two investigations were finally relaunched with that of the other “Disappeared from Isère”, because they were chosen among the first seven cases entrusted to the investigation of the “cold cases” center opened that year in Nanterre. .
An ordinary man
“Le Parisien” describes Mohammed C., with supporting photo, as a man “with a hairless face and a sallow complexion”. A former worker at Renault, the man of Moroccan origin currently lives in Dijon with his partner, but would have lived for a time in Villefontaine, in Isère, at the time of the murders of Nathalie Boyer and Laïla Afif. He is described to our colleagues as a “friendly and quiet”, “helpful”, “caring” neighbor who daily walked his dog Titi, a small Yorkie, and was regularly accompanied by his partner, to whom he seems very close.
Mohammed C. was already known to the police for “minor crimes” and had already spent time in prison. To “Parisien”, neighbors of the suspect said they had been challenged by his behavior a few years ago. “He spent long days sitting in his white van at the corner of the laundromat,” they said. He looked like he was waiting for someone. We women had spotted it. He scared me a little. But he changed a lot once he met his partner. »
