• Martin Ney, 50, will return to German jails in the coming days.

  • "I can simply tell you that he disputes the facts", explained the public prosecutor of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul, who indicates that the investigations will continue.

Is the investigation finally stalling? Martin Ney, a German prisoner convicted of the murder of three children, will soon be handed over to the authorities of his country, the Nantes prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. Because after spending eight months in France, where he is indicted for the 2004 murder of Jonathan, 10 years old, the confession did not take place. "I can simply tell you that he disputes the facts", explained the public prosecutor of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul, without giving more details on the answers given by the suspect to the French justice.

Martin Ney, 50, was handed over to the French authorities on January 22, then indicted on January 25 for "murder of a minor under 15 and arrest, kidnapping and forcible confinement, or arbitrary diversion of minors under the age of 15. 15 years ”.

"The eight months having expired, the person concerned will return to German jails in the coming days", that is to say before the end of September, said Renaud Gaudeul.

Investigations will continue

"However, this does not in any way mean that the charges are non-existent against him, on the contrary, in this case, the investigating judge will continue his investigations in the context of this case", he said. developed.

"It is only at the end of these investigations that it will be possible to indicate, firstly whether it is necessary to bring the alleged perpetrator back to France, and secondly whether there are charges. sufficient against him justifying his referral to the Assize Court ”, explained the prosecutor.

Jonathan, originally from Cher, had disappeared during the night of April 6 to 7, 2004 from a holiday center in Saint-Brévin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique).

His body was discovered on May 19, tied up and weighted with a cinder block, in a pond near Guérande, 25 kilometers from the place of the kidnapping.

A European arrest warrant had been issued against Martin Ney in October 2019. The hypothesis of his responsibility was, among others, explored for a long time by investigators and this track was relaunched in April 2018 by indirect confessions , between inmates.

Martin Ney's fellow prisoner then claimed to have taken the confession of this criminal, already sentenced to life in 2012 for the murder of three children in northern Germany.

Born December 12, 1970, Martin Ney was, until his transfer to Nantes, imprisoned in Celle in Lower Saxony (north-west Germany).

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