“The population, I won't hide it from you, is a little in shock.
It is something brutal, something violent, which has never happened in this village.
Seeing this family in suffering, seeing their children, their parents, their companion, in turmoil and in mourning, it's very difficult, very difficult for us ”, confesses the Mayor of Orschwihr, an Alsatian village in Haut-Rhin .
“We don't really understand, but we are there to support the family,” explains one of the participants in the white march.
At the end of the funeral of this 39-year-old woman, mother of two children, around 500 people, according to the gendarmes, took charge, with a white rose in their hand, of the Bollenberg chapel, in the middle of the vines, on the heights of the village.
At the head of the procession, the family of the victim held a banner on which appeared a large photo of the smiling HRD, surrounded by doves.
After walking for half an hour to the sound of bagpipes, the walkers, visibly moved for many, silently placed their roses in front of this small chapel with white walls.
Inside, an altar, decorated with candles, was erected in memory of Estelle Luce.
This chapel "is a place that Estelle liked a lot", explained the mayor of Orschwihr Marie-Josée Staender.
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 Ms. 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 suspected killer of Valence and Drôme, dismissed from the same company, at the time when the two HRDs were working there, said Monday. the prosecutor of the Republic of Mulhouse Edwige Roux-Morizot.
In the case of the murder of Estelle Luce, of which there was no direct witness, the investigators consider that the author would also be this unemployed engineer living in Nancy, but for the moment this link has not yet been formally established, neither by the public prosecutor of Colmar, nor by that of Valence.
Arrested at the wheel of his car, the man was indicted for "assassinations" for the victims of Valence and Drôme.
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