six months later, where is the investigation into the murder of Gendarme Molinari in Mont-Dore?

It's a mid-May drama in New Caledonia. On Wednesday the 15th, in the evening, while the riots were in full swing across the Noumea metropolitan area, a gendarme was sitting in a service vehicle, parked on the provincial road in La Coulée, in Mont-Dore. A scene recalled in the press release sent by the public prosecutor this Friday, November 15, just six months later. “Around 8 p.m.”Nicolas Molinari was hit in the head by a gunshot.

The young mobile, originally from Bouches-du-Rhône, belongs to the Melun squadron, based in the Paris region and seconded to the Caillou. He's not going to survive. That evening, “several gunshots [visent] also mobile gendarmes occupying their staff vehicle”. Yves Dupas reminds us, “these extremely serious facts led the prosecution to open a judicial investigation on May 30”. For, murder and attempted murder of persons holding public authority. But what about the investigation?

“Since then, the investigations carried out by the gendarmerie research section have continued under the authority of the investigating judge”replies the prosecutor. “The parents and sister of Nicolas Molinari have become civil parties in the investigation procedure. They are legitimately waiting to know the truth about the murder of Nicolas, aged 22.”

No arrests at this stage. “But the investigators carried out numerous interviews with witnesses and carried out technical and scientific police actions.” At the end of July, a simulation was organized on site.

Six months after the events, I would like to underline our unwavering determination to lead to the identification of the perpetrators of this crime, punishable by the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

Yves Dupas, public prosecutor