Suspected of the murder of a 15-year-old girl in 1988 and that of a 40-year-old woman in 2000 in Isère, a man left police custody on Friday November 29, 2024 in the morning, indicated the Nanterre prosecutor's office, requested by theAFP. This Friday morning, he was presented to a judge of freedoms and detention of the judicial court of Dijon (Côte-d'Or) “as part of the execution of an arrest warrant from the investigating magistrate, pending his transfer for the purposes of presentation to the investigating judge of the pole in Nanterre in the coming days”, said the prosecution.
Aged around sixty, the suspect was identified using his DNA and placed in police custody on Monday November 25 at the premises of the gendarmes of the Grenoble research section (Isère). He is suspected of being involved in the murder of Leila Afif, killed in 2000 in La Verpillière, and in that of Nathalie Boyer, 15, found with her throat slit in August 1988 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.
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The center of serial or unsolved crimes (the cold cases) of Nanterre, created in 2022, had relaunched these two procedures, now joined. The suspect's DNA was found on the seals of the Afif file and “the work of the SR [section de recherches] of Grenoble made it possible to make the connection » between these two cases, had specified to theAFP Me Corinne Herrmann, lawyer for the family of Nathalie Boyer.
Nathalie Boyer is one of the victims of the so-called “Disappeared from Isère” affair, which brings together nine to twelve disappearances or murders of children that occurred in the department between 1983 and 1996.
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