a man indicted 25 years after the murder of Ginette Naime in the Var – Libération

A 61-year-old man was indicted on Thursday January 16 for the murder of Ginette Naime in April 2000 in Ollioules (Var), the Nanterre prosecutor’s office announced in a press release. The body of this 46-year-old woman was found by walkers, stabbed on a path. The pole «cold cases»by its official name Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes center, had been seized of this case since the summer of 2022. It had opened a preliminary investigation in May 2023, entrusted to the Central Office for the Repression of Violence against Persons ( OCRVP), to restart the investigations.

A first judicial investigation for assassination was opened in Toulon between 2000 and 2008, then a second between 2016 and 2020. “The careful resumption of the investigation by OCRVP investigators over the last two years, including the new hearing of several witnesses to the facts and the presentation of photographic plates […]allowed the identification of a 61-year-old man.indicates the public prosecutor in a press release. The latter was placed in police custody on Tuesday in Toulon, then indicted for “extortion with a weapon and murder preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime”, before being placed in pre-trial detention, adds the same source.

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On April 13, 2000, the suspect allegedly attacked Ginette Naime at the exit of the Communal Social Action Center (CCAS) in La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var) to extort money from her. In a video calling for witnesses from the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, broadcast on the website of the Ministry of the Interior in June, an investigator explained: “An employee [du centre social] heard a woman screaming and from his window he saw a woman in a vehicle, on the front passenger side, knocking on the window, then the car drove away.” According to the investigation, the victim then made two money withdrawals from the BNP agency in La Seyne-sur-Mer. A witness noticed “the presence of a man opposite, appearing to watch the victim”according to investigations.

The body of Ginette Naime was subsequently discovered, “stabbed multiple times”. Witnesses immediately notified the police, giving them information about the person they had seen fleeing in a car. According to the Parisianthe suspect is a former drug addict who has never left Var since the events. Still according to our colleagues, he lived precariously with a disabled woman receiving RSA.