Where is the Grégory affair? "The New Detective" takes stock

37 years after the events, the Grégory affair has still not revealed all its secrets.

unveils another part of it in its last special edition, dedicated to the disappearance of the little boy in 1984. "We learn a lot of things, a lot of details", says the great reporter Michel Mary, one of the feathers of the special edition, guest of Europe 1 Friday.

A fine connoisseur of the case, at the time he was one of the many journalists dispatched to the site.

After thousands of newspaper articles, numerous books and even a Netflix series, the

adds his findings to this thick dossier. 

Chronological account and field survey

This new investigation took a year of work, explains the journalist.

"The team remade the course of the case, so as to be able to offer a chronological account, with also a field investigation and witnesses who had never been heard."

If elements just come to the surface, more than three decades later, it is because of all the "family secrets" and the "stories of deception or bedtime" which surround the disappearance of little Grégory.

"We explain more than the story, we also tell how it starts," said Michel Mary.

Crucial elements still rise to the surface

The

returns in particular to the custody of Murielle Bolle, aged 15 at the time of the facts, who had accused her brother-in-law Bernard Laroche of having kidnapped Grégory, before retracting.

"We tried to contact her, but she refuses to testify. What I can understand. All her life, she dragged this story, until 2017, when she was arrested and indicted," recounts the journalist .

At the origin of these many twists and turns, precious testimonies collected late, many years later.

The special item recalls for example that a woman had seen "a red-haired girl", corresponding to the description of Murielle Bolle, in Bernard Laroche's car on the day of the kidnapping.

Being in the company of her lover when she crossed them, the witness kept this crucial information secret for a long time. 

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And new developments are still expected in 2021. "Justice has requested DNA analyzes on raven mail," says Bernard Mary.

Other expected results: those of a stylometric expertise (analysis of syntax and punctuation in particular) of letters seized from relatives of the Villemin family, to be compared with anonymous letters.