Kidnapped from Tonneins, little Vanesa was raped and killed near Langon

The reconstitution Tuesday January 14, 2025 of the Vanesa affairteenage girl kidnapped in Tonneins (Lot-et-Garonne) in November 2022, raped and killed made it possible to clarify a few points about the investigation. It was difficult to determine the exact location of the crime. If Romain Chevrel, accused (presumed innocent at this stage of the investigation) quickly gave the necessary information to find the body of the young victim, an uninhabited house in Birac-sur-Trec, he remained unclear as to the location. where he allegedly committed the rapes and murder of the little girl.

In the open countryside, in a forest

A country lane. A forest. These are the only details available the investigators. It is impossible for the accused to remember the exact location as he seems to have chosen it by chance.

Another clarification: the driving time. Estimated at 1h30… The police’s careful investigation made it possible to locate this path in Gironde, on the border of Lot-et-Garonne.

The second part of the reconstruction of the Vanesa affair, the most essential as it seems imprecise, therefore led the gendarmes, magistrates and lawyers to Sigalens, on municipal road 1, route du Peyret. As the town center of Tonneinsit was closed to traffic on Tuesday January 14 all afternoon. A gendarmerie system limited access only to those essential to the instruction. There were around ten of them, from the Langon-Toulenne gendarmerie company.

Reproduce the unspeakable

For very long minutes, Romain Chevrel had to show in the smallest details what he is accused of having put young Vanesa through.

It is therefore in this isolated corner, where the telephone network is absent that he parked his car to rape and kill the teenager. About forty kilometers from the place of his kidnapping.

It was also by chance that he chose the place to deposit the young girl’s body, in Birac-sur-Trec. There too, after having covered around forty kilometers.

The empty house was not the scene of a reconstruction on Tuesday.

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