Rambouillet, October 28, 2019. Relatives of Robert Boulin organized a "citizen reconstruction" of the discovery of his body, in 1979. -

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“A major turning point in the fight for the search for truth”.

In a statement sent to AFP, Fabienne Boulin and her lawyer Marie Dosé confirmed new conclusions in the Boulin affair, revealed this Sunday by Le Parisien-Today in France.

A new college of experts mandated to determine the causes of the death of Robert Boulin, former Minister of Labor and mayor of Libourne (Gironde) indeed considers the initial findings insufficient to conclude "formally" at a death by drowning, a- we learned on Sunday from the family of the former minister found in a pond in the forest of Rambouillet in 1979.

The report concludes that Robert Boulin "was the victim of willful violence"

The daughter of the former Minister of Labor of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing "takes note that it is finally established judicially that the former magistrates seized of this file which concluded with the suicide of her father by drowning justified their order of non- held on erroneous expert conclusions ”, we can read.

"It also takes note that no tangible element can now be put forward to ensure that Robert Boulin would have committed suicide by drowning", add the two women.

This new expertise also shows that Robert Boulin "was the victim of willful violence which caused a recent fracture of the nose and concomitant with the death".

New judicial information for "kidnapping" and "murder" in 2015

On October 30, 1979, the former minister was found dead in a pond in the forest of Rambouillet (Yvelines), at the age of 59.

His death was initially classified as a suicide by drowning, after ingestion of barbiturates.

Doubting this version, his family lodged a complaint in 1983: the investigation, opened for murder, ended in a dismissal in 1991. His daughter requested, in 2002 and 2010, the reopening of the case, without success. until 2015, when a new judicial investigation was opened against X for "kidnapping" and "murder".

In its report, extracts of which are quoted in the press release by Fabienne Boulin and Marie Dosé, the new college of experts considers that “the findings described” at the time “are not sufficient for a formal conclusion” of death by drowning ” in the absence of anatomopathological and biological data ”.

Indisputable existence of a fracture

Regarding the blows to the former minister which had been revealed by the second autopsy, "the new expert report finally records the now incontestable existence of a fracture of the nasal portion of the upper left jaw", note the daughter of Robert Boulin and the lawyer.

This fracture, which experts specify that it could not by itself cause the death of Robert Boulin, "was caused by" a direct shock "secondary" either to a fall or to a strike by blunt object "", They add.

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