Ten days after the discovery of his body in a stream in Isère, some 900 people gathered for the funeral of Victorine Dartois this Wednesday in Bourgoin-Jallieu.

The investigation for "murder" is still ongoing, mobilizing significant resources.

Victorine Dartois' funeral was celebrated Wednesday in Bourgoin-Jallieu, ten days after she was found drowned in a stream near her home in Villefontaine, in Isère, without the mystery surrounding her death having been lifted.

The mass, co-celebrated by 15 priests including the representative of the Bishop of Grenoble, took place in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Bourgoin-Jallieu, to which the scout troop of the 18-year-old girl was attached.

The family was also very active in its parish of Villefontaine.

900 people inside and outside the church

At 2:30 p.m., the white coffin containing the remains of the young BTS student entered the church, followed by her embracing parents, two sisters and brother.

It was placed on a bed of flower petals making up a pink heart on a white background.

"I cried four times in my life, with each birth and there, a fifth time," said James Darois, father of Victorine, the youngest in the family, to the audience.


Her older sister Romane, who had launched the alert on social networks after her disappearance on Saturday, September 26, testified to their close relationship, painting the portrait of a young girl "end-to-train".

Both very religious and also inhabited by teenage concerns.

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While 300 relatives and friends were seated in the church (at reduced capacity due to sanitary instructions), around 600 people took their places, according to the police, on the forecourt of the building where the ceremony was broadcast on a Big screen.

Neighbors and anonymous signed the condolence booklets made available by the funeral directors or placed flowers at the entrance of the church.

The large banner "Victorine rest in peace", produced for the white march which gathered Sunday in Villefontaine nearly 6,000 people, adjoined the church.

"To sympathize with the pain of the family"

Edith, 70, traveled 40 km to come "to sympathize with the pain of the family".

His sister Andrée, from Bourgoin, speaks of a murder "which has been messing up all of us for two weeks. It's horrible and when it happens close to home, it's even worse".

The investigation for "murder", intended to elucidate the circumstances of Victorine's death, is still ongoing, mobilizing significant resources.