A suspect is in pre-trial detention following four overwhelming testimonies, including that of his ex-partner. While the body remains untraceable and no reporting report corresponds, the gendarmes are convinced that a crime has been committed. The prosecutor launched a call for witnesses on Wednesday.
by Lucie Soullier
The victim is unknown, his body not found. And yet, the gendarmes are convinced that a cyclist was murdered eight months ago, on a road from Eure: on March 9, a man would have overturned it before returning to the end of shovel and d ‘bury your body. A 46 -year -old suspect is even indicted since June for “assassination, concealment of corpse and destruction of evidence” in this strange case, and placed in pre -trial detention.
Only, no one reported an disappearance that may correspond. Neither in France nor in Europe. No trace of blood was found during searches at the suspect’s home. Even less bodies during excavations undertaken in a wooded and remote area, north of the department.
So, can justice maintain this man in pre-trial detention, even send him back to the assizes? “The question is seriously beginning to ask,” agrees the public prosecutor of Evreux, Rémi Coutin. Alongside the two gendarmerie colonels in charge of the investigation, he played one of the last cards of this “very specific file” by launching a call for witnesses at a press conference on Wednesday, November 16. Objective, try to answer two questions that have haunt the gendarmes for several months: who is this unknown that no one is looking for, and where his body has been buried? and “stained red”
“We are convinced that a crime has been committed,” warns the prosecutor, before unrolling the elements against the suspect. In this case, four overwhelming testimonies, two photographs of the suspect’s vehicle – the rugged windshield and “stained with red” – and a large lie. The suspect, a Polish living in France for many years, has indeed declared his Audi A4 registered in stolen Poland, before admitting that he had himself burnt down, making any observation of accident impossible, even less any sample.
“The other problem is that our investigation begins only two months after the facts,” continues Colonel Thierry Jourdren, commanding Rouen’s research section. Either May 14 precisely, when the former partner’s partner appears at the Dieppe gendarmerie. The 48 -year -old woman explains that on March 9, her ex called her, panicked after flanked her at the door a few days earlier. Drunk, he tells her that he has just killed a cyclist while driving. Then he recalls, to tell her that ultimately, everything is fine, she has just left by bike. Three days later, she still spends at home, and notes “flow traces” on the right wing of her car, which seem to him to be blood. He is absent.
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