Police custody of a man suspected of being involved in two cold cases in Isère

The gendarmes suspect this sixty-year-old of being involved in the deaths of Leila Afif in 1988 and Nathalie Boyer in 2000.

A man in his sixties is in police custody, suspected of being involved in two cold cases in Isère, franceinfo learned from a source close to the case on Wednesday November 27, confirming information from RTL. He is heard by investigators from the Grenoble research section. This man, identified by his DNA, was taken into police custody on Monday, after his arrest at dawn in Burgundy. This police custody can last up to 96 hours, and therefore ends tomorrow Thursday.

The gendarmes suspect him of being involved in the death in 2000 of Leila Afif, found shot to death in La Verpillère (Isère) and of Nathalie Boyer, a 15-year-old minor, found with her throat slit in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère) in August 1988. This source indicates that it was DNA found in the seals of the file on the death of Leila Afif which ended up allow this suspect to be identified.

These two cases have been taken up by the Nanterre cold case unit (Hauts-de-Seine) since 2022, in support of the “cold case” section of the gendarmerie, the National Division of Unresolved Cases (Diane).