For the lawyer of the family of the young woman found dead charred in December 1998, the decision of the investigating judge must allow to support new suspicions in this investigation became a real conundrum.

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It is a judicial enigma of the end of the last century that may be a decisive step forward: twenty years after the murder of Paquita Parra, a 30-year-old woman found dead carbonized driving a car on a parking lot near Angoulême, in December 1998, the investigating judge decided to use the major means and to exhume the body, according to information of L'Express which Europe 1 had confirmation.

Many hearings after the reopening of the investigation

The investigation has long remained a riddle without a track, until last summer. On school outing, in September 2017, a schoolgirl discovers documents and clothing in an undergrowth not far from where Paquita Parra was found burned dead 20 years earlier. She manipulates these things and keeps them in her room, unaware of their importance, before looking for Paquita Parra's name on the Internet with her mother.

" With scientific technologies, it is possible to return to DNA elements that are undoubtedly valuable "

The recovered cases are almost intact, so they were filed there shortly before the discovery by the high school girl. Last year, the prosecutor decided to reopen the investigation and gendarmes chained hearings, which lead to this decision, rare, to exhume the body of the young woman. "It is a strong act since it is not very used," says Christine Maze, the lawyer of the Parra family. "With scientific technologies, it is possible to revisit DNA elements that are undoubtedly valuable in the investigation."

"Repetition of strong investigative acts"

"We are not that far off, since we see a repetition of strong investigative acts in the context of the investigation procedure," the council continues. "They show that investigators need scientific investigations to support the leads they are developing."

Experts from the Criminal Investigation Institute of the National Gendarmerie have been appointed to try to establish as precisely as possible the causes of the death of the young woman and identify any DNA traces. "More than ever, the family believes in it and remains very attentive, waiting for the truth," concludes Me Christine Maze. "Paquita's mom needs to know the name of the one who killed her beloved daughter."