Often presented as the key figure in the Grégory affair, Murielle Bolle comes out of silence and delivers her truth in a book to be released on November 8th. We met her in Paris. Interview.
In custody at the beginning of November 1984, Murielle Bolle, Bernard Laroche's sister-in-law, said that her brother-in-law had picked her up at the end of the college before he had abducted Grégory Villemin. This declaration will lead to the arrest of Bernard Laroche. A few days later, she had retracted, repeating that the gendarmes had pushed her to make this statement.
Aged 49 today and mother of three, she delivers her truth in a book. His indictment (in 2017) was canceled last spring. Interview.
On October 16, 1984, the day Grégory Villemin was kidnapped and killed, did your brother-in-law Bernard Laroche pick you up by car when he left school?
Not at all ! I took the school bus as usual and was sitting next to my girlfriend Nelly who, incidentally, confirmed. I was asked the question so many times ...
During your second interrogation, however, you said that you were riding in your brother-in-law's car, where his son Sébastien was also. Then you went to Lepanges to pick up Christine's boy and Jean-Marie Villemin. Why did you say that?
During the interrogation, the gendarmes became contemptuous, wicked. I could see they did not believe me when I told them I was on the bus. So they shouted at me, they punched the table, told me that if I continued to lie, I would not see Mom again, that I would go to a correctional home ... I was 15 years old. And then, my father had told me not to make any fuss with the gendarmes. At one point, I got tired of it. I was tired.
You gave details ...
The gendarmes asked the questions and gave me the answers at the same time. It was they who told me that Gregory was wearing a cap. As for the route to Lépanges, a gendarme showed it to me with his finger on a map and I drew it with a pencil.
What you do not understand in this abduction scenario is why your brother-in-law came to pick you up ...
I do not know. That does not make sense.
Because of insulin? (note: an empty light bulb was found near the place where Gregory would have been deposited)
Some have said that I could have put Gregory to sleep with an insulin shot. A nurse who came regularly to look after mother, said that I knew how to do the bites. It's wrong. I did not learn to bites until years later: when we went on vacation to Lourdes, with mom.
This same nurse, now deceased, claimed that you had confided her to the cemetery in front of your mother's grave. Bernard Laroche would have come to pick you up ...
This woman has changed version three times. I do not know why she went to tell that. At mom's, she was always welcomed. She used the coffee alone, she ate a slice of pie. Mom kissed him. I never told him anything.
One of your cousins, Patrick Faivre, revealed last year that you were beaten by your family on November 6, 1984, after confessing to your loved ones what you told the gendarmes. You would also have confided to him. Him, too?
He was not there that day! There are several errors in his statements. He claims that the lawyer, Mr. Prompt, was present. That's wrong, it only happened on November 8th. He describes my parents' house as it was when I was little and where he came on vacation, that's right. But in 1984, she did not look like that anymore, my parents had bought a floor. He also claims to know me by heart. But he does not remember my dog, a German shepherd, who followed me everywhere, and my favorite sport, football. Did he also want to give himself importance?
Last year, you were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention for 36 days. Thirty-three years after the murder and while you now have three boys ...
The distance with my children is what was most terrible. The reaction of other inmates too. Insults, objects thrown by the windows the only time I went out for a walk. Fortunately, the guards and babysitters were kind to me. One of them even intervened one day that I had my companion on the phone, who almost insulted me. It was not the first time. The guard told me to hang up. He does not have to talk to you like that, he told me.
Today, what are your relationships with your sister Marie-Ange, the widow of Bernard Laroche?
We cross each other. We give each other news of our grandchildren. But between us, for sure, there is a break. I think she understood that I had nothing to do with it. But I still feel a little responsible for Bernard's death. If only I had not been afraid of gendarmes during the interrogation ... Bernard, I go to his grave every week. He was a kind, helpful man [Murielle Bolle is in tears].
But others are also responsible. Jean-Marie Villemin who fired. His wife Christine who bought the rifle. And this journalist who made listen to the recordings of my audition to the Villemin couple, the day before the day Bernard was killed (note: this is Jean Ker, reporter at Paris Match )]
What is your daily life today?
I live again in the Vosges. Even if some people still staring at me, looking at me strangely, I do not want to move. My life is there, with my family. I am separated from my companion and I found a home, a little apart. But since my imprisonment and the ten months that justice has forced me to spend far from mine, in the Nièvre, my third son is always worried. He always wants to know where I am.
For the rest, what I like is to be in nature, in the woods. I'm going for a walk, picking mushrooms. And I'm still listening to Johnny Hallyday. He cradled my adolescence, when because of journalists, I remained hidden in my room.
Have you stopped dying your hair in black?
I did it last spring before I could return to the Vosges. It was the first time. But I stopped. Although I have been nicknamed "the redhead", "Carrot hair", I am red and proud to be so.
What do you hope now?
I hope people will understand that I am not the woman we have described or insulted. But above all, I hope that justice will find the real culprit. And leave us alone, we Bolle-Laroche. Our families are also victims. Sebastian, Bernard's son, was there when his father was killed.
I understand that Christine and Jean-Marie Villemin want to know the truth. But it's not me, it's not Bernard who kidnapped their child. That they seek other tracks. I hope someday someone on his deathbed will finally tell the truth. "Break the silence", Murielle Bolle, editions Michel Lafon, € 18.95.