Murielle Bolle was indicted Wednesday in Metz for "aggravated defamation" after a complaint by his cousin, which it accuses of false testimony in a book giving his version of the case Gregory, indicates a judicial source. "In filing a complaint for defamation with civil party, the indictment is automatic, the investigating judge has very little appreciation," said the plaintiff's lawyer, Thomas Hellenbrand.
"This is not a procedure that worries me a lot.This indictment is automatic from the moment there is a complaint for defamation," responded the lawyer Murielle Bolle, Jean-Paul Teissonnière, in Vosges Matin who gave the information. In a book entitled Breaking the Silence, published in November, 49-year-old Murielle Bolle accuses her cousin of inventing violence inflicted by her family to retract in November 1984.
Confessions to gendarmes
A few days earlier, the 15-year-old girl had told the gendarmes and then the examining magistrate that her brother-in-law, Bernard Laroche, had kidnapped Grégory Villemin in the afternoon of October 16, 1984. The body of the The 4-year-old was found a few hours later, hands and feet tied, in the Vologne river. The cousin had lodged a complaint in late December against Muriel Bolle for "aggravated public defamation" with the Dean of Investigating Judges of the District Court of Metz at the end of December.
The complaint also concerns the novelist Pauline Guena, who wrote the book with Murielle Bolle, and the publishing house Michel Lafon. According to Mr Hellenbrand, a trial in the Metz Criminal Court could be held by the end of the year. The cousin had contacted the gendarmes to report the beatings received by Murielle Bolle in June 2017, when she had just been indicted with Marcel and Jacqueline Jacob, the grand-uncle and grand aunt of the boy, for "kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by death".
The three indictments were annulled in April 2018 for procedural reasons. In February, the Court of Cassation acknowledged that the custody of Murielle Bolle in 1984 had been carried out under "unconstitutional" provisions. The Paris Court of Appeal must now consider the question of its annulment.