On the main square of Guidel, cars parade at the end of the morning of Pentecost Monday, but passers-by are rare. The inhabitants go to the cellar or to the Maison de la Presse, the only shops open, before rushing into their car and returning home. They hardly stop to chat and yet the news begins to spread in the town: Iris C., the young woman whose lifeless body was found in the Blavet, in Lanester, this weekend, was from Guidel and was the daughter of an employee of the town hall. This Sunday evening, May 28, the police custody of a man, aged around thirty, presented by the Lorient prosecutor’s office as being “close to the family entourage” of the young woman, was lifted. The autopsy of Iris’s body is to be performed this Tuesday morning.
Murder of Iris C. in Lanester: what we know
On the terrace of the P’tit Café, place Jaffré, where only a few customers have settled, Anne-Charlotte has just learned: “It’s shocking. The danger is everywhere, even here, ”she breathes, gloomily. At the counter, Gilles, the bartender, is visibly moved: “It touches Me. I have worked at Guidel for ten years, I must have known her. A few dozen meters further on, at the Eden Bar, a handful of men stop when we introduce ourselves: “You come for the little one. We were just talking about it. Fear, disbelief and anger – “we are not doing anything to protect women” – color the discussion, while on the television screen hanging on the wall, the images of a news channel scroll by. continuum that evokes the case.
“They immediately thought of her”
In the almost deserted City center of the town of 11,000 inhabitants, one does not want to be associated with hearsay on such a tragic affair. A resident crossed in a trade therefore prefers to conceal her name. She says she knew very early on that the young woman was from Guideloise: “Most of our young people had been worried about her for two days because they couldn’t reach her on the networks. When they read the announcement of the discovery of a body in Lanester, they immediately thought of her. Me, I put things into perspective, saying that you shouldn’t necessarily think of the worst. Unfortunately, they were right. »
The city’s mayor, Jo Daniel, sums up the prevailing feeling well: “Everyone at home is shocked by this sad news. I was informed by his mother herself, whom I know well, because she has worked for the City for a long time. She was very, very shocked. It is a bereavement in very difficult circumstances. We will be there to support her and we will do what is necessary to support her as best we can in this ordeal. »
