A former investigator of the Grégory affair on Monday, 12 November, denounced "slanderous attacks" and "lies" contained in his eyes in the book by Murielle Bolle entitled "Breaking the silence" and in which she says reveal the truth , 34 years after the tragedy.
His name is Étienne Sesmat and he followed the Grégory affair very closely at the time when this news item broke out. A former investigator on Monday denounced "slanderous attacks" and "lies" contained in his eyes in the book Murielle Bolle, entitled Breaking the silence and in which she said reveal the truth, 34 years after the tragedy. This book, published last week and written with the novelist Pauline Guéna, as well as the interviews given as part of its promotion "arrive conveniently for their authors at the time the Constitutional Council must decide [...] on the custody and the testimony of Murielle Bolle of 1984 " , estimates the colonel of gendarmerie with the retirement, in a statement diffused this Monday.
Aged 15 at the time, Murielle Bolle had accused her brother-in-law Bernard Laroche of kidnapping Grégory Villemin before retracting. A flip-flop, always in the heart of the case. "As former leader of the investigators targeted by the slanderous attacks and the lies that mark this book, I want to officially and strongly denounce this low maneuver," writes the former soldier.
"The greatest precautions were taken to hear the young Murielle"
When they question her in 1984, says Murielle Bolle in her story, the gendarmes call her a "liar" , threatening her to go to "a correctional house" . Persuaded that they are "all-powerful" , she ends up "letting go" yes and no, "according to what they want," write the authors. On the contrary, Colonel Sesmat claims that "the greatest precautions were taken to hear the young Murielle and collect her revelations" and "to ensure her psychological well-being , " he continues. "I can not admit or support that the gendarmes are presented as people without honor or morality, extorting by the threat and violent intimidations the revelations of a girl of 15 years," adds the gendarme retired.
Referring to Murielle Bolle's suicide attempt, he still asserts that, according to him, she did not attempt suicide after the murder of Bernard Laroche by Grégory's father at the end of March 1985, as indicated in the book, but November 5, 1985, the day of the incarceration of his brother-in-law.
In June 2017, Murielle Bolle was indicted for Grégory's death, along with Jacqueline and Marcel Jacob, grand aunt and grand-uncle of the child, and incarcerated for 38 days. "At 48 years old. While I'm a grandmother, " she says in her book. These indictments were quashed in April for procedural reasons. The Constitutional Council, seized of a priority question of constitutionality at the initiative of his lawyers, will say on November 16 if his fundamental rights were respected during his custody.