A man in his sixties 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 on Monday, December 3.
It took 24 and 36 years to find the man suspected of the murder of Leïla Afif, killed in 2000 in La Verpillière, and of Nathalie Boyer, 15, found with her throat slit in August 1988 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. The suspect, a man in his sixties, was arrested and taken into custody last week in the premises of the Grenoble research section gendarmes after being identified by his DNA.
According to the Nanterre public prosecutor's office, a man in his sixties “was presented on Monday December 2 before the investigating magistrate, who indicted him” for the two homicides. “He was then placed in pre-trial detention by a judge of freedoms and detention of Nanterre”. His police custody was lifted on Friday morning, before being presented to a judge of freedoms and detention of the Dijon judicial court, who placed him in detention, pending his transfer to Nanterre.
“He scared me”
For Dounia, the daughter of Leïla Afif, killed in 2000, it is a relief to have “finally an answer, 24 years later”. “Justice will finally be done”she testified at the microphone of RTL. She knows her mother's alleged murderer, since she “grown up next door”. “We came into contact with each other, we knew each other. He scared me. His look, his behavior, the fact that he followed the girls. The fact that several times he offered to take me home”she says. “Today I tell myself that perhaps my fear was not for nothing. Mom, luckily you fought. Mom, you did well to take this DNA from him.”she adds, moved. Because this DNA of the suspect and the work of the Grenoble research section which made it possible to make the connection with the Nathalie Boyer affair, which is also the subject of an investigation in Nanterre.
Nathalie Boyer is one of the victims of the “disappeared from Isère” case, which concerns nine disappearances or murders of children in the department between 1983 and 1996. The center for serial or unsolved crimes (“cold cases”) ) of Nanterre, created in 2022, relaunched these two procedures, now joined.
