About 300 people, mostly white roses in hand, took part on Saturday February 6 in the white march in tribute in memory of Estelle Luce, director of human resources murdered at the end of January in Orschwihr, an Alsatian village in Haut-Rhin.
Several hundred people took part on Saturday in Orschwihr, an Alsatian village in Haut-Rhin, in a white march in tribute to Estelle Luce who was allegedly the victim of the "HRD killer", suspected of having also killed an employee of Pôle Emploi in Valence and another HRD in Drôme.
In front of the church of this small wine-growing village, stood a large photo of this smiling 39-year-old woman, mother of two children, at the foot of which numerous wreaths of white flowers have been placed.
"The population is in shock"
At the end of his funeral, around 300 people, mostly white roses in hand, took over the management of the Bollenberg chapel, in the middle of the vineyards, on the heights of the village.
After walking for half an hour to the sound of bagpipes, they silently placed their roses in front of this little chapel with white walls.
"It's a place that Estelle loved a lot," the mayor of Orschwihr Marie-Josée Staender told AFP.
In this town of a thousand inhabitants where Estelle Luce had resided for several years with her companion, "the population is in shock, it is something brutal, something violent that has never happened in this village. ", confided the mayor who did not know the victim personally.
"Seeing this family in suffering is very difficult", added Marie-Josée Staender, explaining that this white march was organized "to show them all our affection and our solidarity".
What link with the double murder in Drôme and Ardèche?
Estelle Luce was found shot dead in her car in the parking lot of her company in Wolfgantzen (Haut-Rhin), near Colmar, on January 26 at the end of the afternoon.
The same day, another HR Director, with whom Estelle Luce had worked in 2008 in a company in Eure-et-Loir, was shot, also in Haut-Rhin.
This assassination attempt was committed by a man who turned out to be Gabriel Fortin, the killer of Valence and Drôme, made a licensee of the same company.
In the case of the murder of Estelle Luce, the investigators consider that the author would also be this unemployed engineer living in Nancy, but for the time being, this link has not yet been formally established neither by the Colmar prosecutor's office nor by that of Valence.
The man, arrested at the wheel of his car, was indicted for "assassinations" for the victims of Valence and Drôme.