• Seven files have already been entrusted to an investigating judge out of the hundred being analyzed at the new center of the Nanterre court dedicated to serial crimes and unsolved cases.

  • Among these procedures are the cases targeting the serial killer Michel Fourniret, but also others which have been less publicized in the past.

  • The investigating judges of this specialized center will re-examine the whole file "with their own eyes", explained during a press conference the president of the court Catherine Pautrat.

Investigating services, law firms, courts, families of victims… For several months, everyone has been hoping that the cases they submit will be seized by the new center of the Nanterre court dedicated to serial crimes and unsolved cases.

Of the 107 cases being analyzed, seven have already been entrusted to an investigating judge, namely Sabine Kheris.

Former dean of the investigating judges at the Paris court, now first vice-president of the pole in Nanterre, the magistrate is known for having succeeded in making the serial killer Michel Fourniret confess to his role in the death of Estelle Mouzin.

Thanks to the unprecedented means dedicated to this specialized pole, she – and the two other magistrates who will come to reinforce the pole next September – will have the mission of doing everything to elucidate these cases which have been deadlocked for years.

So that their perpetrators do not reoffend, so that the families can finally know the truth.

Crimes possibly linked to Michel Fourniret

Among these seven procedures are the cases targeting the ogre of the Ardennes already followed in Paris by judge Kheris, indicated this Wednesday, during a press conference, the public prosecutor of Nanterre, Pascal Prache.

The serial killer, who died in May 2021, is strongly suspected of being behind the murders of Marie-Angèle Domece and Joanna Parrish, whose bodies were found in 1988 and 1990, in Yonne).

But also to be involved in the disappearances of Lydie Logé in 1993, in Orne, and of little Estelle Mouzin, in 2003, in Seine-et-Marne.

Despite numerous excavations, her body was never found.

The Hemma Davy-Greedharry Affair

On May 30, 1987, Hemma Davy-Greedharry, 10, was kidnapped in Malakoff in the Hauts-de-Seine, while she was going to a shopping center to buy a bracket.

His naked body was found, in flames, a little over an hour later in Châtillon.

His clothes will never be found.

The autopsy establishes that she was raped and strangled.

His killer was never found.

The murder of Nathalie Boyer

On August 3, 1988, Nathalie Boyer, a 15-year-old teenager living in Bourgoin-Jallieu in Isère, went for a walk in Villefontaine.

The next day, she was found by a railway worker, with her throat slit, along a railway line in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.

The autopsy did not reveal any sexual assault.

The murder of Leila Afif

In 2000, Leila Afif was shot dead in 2000 in La Verpillière, in Isère.

The Miyreim Huysien murder

This Bulgarian prostitute was found stabbed in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in 2017.

The investigating judges will thus re-examine all the files “with their own eyes”, explains the president of the court Catherine Pautrat.

With the objective of finding a flaw, a detail, which would not have been exploited by their predecessors.

In addition to these procedures already entrusted to this center created on March 1, "107 are in the process of exploitation", adds the prosecutor Pascal Prache, stressing that this figure is "constantly changing".

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