“We know we won’t see them alive again.” Laurent and Véronique Blond disappeared in March, while they were on vacation on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Two bodies were found last week, along with a backpack with documents belonging to the couple. “Investigations are currently underway to formally identify these people,” the Montauban prosecutor said on Friday. But the daughters of Véronique and Laurent have little doubt about the identity of these two bodies, like the investigators.
“Now we know that we will not see them alive again”, Johanna confides to La Dépêche du Midi, she had “one fear (…) is that we will never find them”. Today, she is waiting for the results of the identification and for the bodies to be repatriated, “even if we would have liked it to be in other circumstances, we are happy to know that we will find them and be able to begin our mourning . »
Her parents will certainly be buried in Brittany "very close to my sister's home and not too far for me either", she declares, speaking of a place with "lots of holiday memories".
After a month of closure, she also announced the reopening of her parents' bakery in Beaumont-de-Lomagne (Tarn-et-Garonne), with all their employees, on April 15. “It was their business, their own baby,” says Johanna. “I dare to hope that customers will come back out of loyalty to the bakery and to honor the memory of my parents. »