Six years after the murder of her sister, the writer Irène Frain remains determined to find the perpetrator. This Monday evening, she participates in the show Call for witnesses on M6 to try to find the truth. In 2020, she received the Interallié prize for her novel A crime sans importancededicated to the murder of his sister.
On September 8, 2018, his sister is found with a shattered skullin his little house in Essonne. Violently hit with a hammer, the septuagenarian died in hospital. Very quickly, the investigation turns towards a burglary which went wrong but stalled.
Relations between the writer who seeks truth and justice become strained when the autopsy report concludes that her sister died naturally: “I'm probably stupid, I've never seen hammers fall from the sky to create heart attacks, but I fought hard, I didn't give up“, confides the writer.
The homicide was finally accepted by the prosecution, and a connection was made with nine similar burglaries among retirees around Brétigny-sur-Orge, in 2018 and 2019, without any other deaths. Six years later, no suspects, no arrests. Irène Frain appeals this Monday evening, on M6, to all those who could help the investigation and find the attacker with a hammer: “When you have a loved one who disappears in an ultra-violent manner, we are marked for life.”
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