Marcel and Jacqueline Jacob, great-uncle and great-aunt of little Grégory Villemin, assassinated in 1984, assured in an interview published on Saturday that they had
"nothing to be ashamed of"
in this affair, the investigation of which has recently seen new ones developments.
Suspected of being the "crows", the authors of anonymous letters of insults and threats and of a letter of demand for the crime sent to the Villemin family, the spouses were indicted in June 2017 for "kidnapping and kidnapping followed by death ”.
These indictments were finally canceled in May 2018 for procedural reasons.
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“We have nothing to be ashamed of. We have nothing to do with all that, ”
said Jacqueline Jacob in an interview with her husband at
Vosges Matin
and
L'Est Républicain
, presented as the couple's first public speech since the start of the affair, over 36 years ago.
“I never wrote a letter,”
Jacqueline Jacob defended.
“The worst thing is to be accused of something you didn't do,”
her husband added.
Last month,
Le Parisien / Today in France
revealed that a new report of stylometry, a technique which identifies the author of a text according to his writing style, "incriminates a suspect".
“We don't have to be worried if they're doing their job well.
I never wrote ”
, reacted Jacqueline Jacob, questioned on this new expertise.
The two spouses explained their media offensive, which led them to express themselves also in the columns of the
New Detective
and in front of the cameras of BFMTV, by their desire to
"say stop"
, deploring to appear
"every day on the newspaper ”
and to see their name
“ thrown in the pasture ”
.
While the Dijon Court of Appeal, where the case has been investigated since 1987, on Wednesday accepted new genetic expertise, in accordance with the wishes expressed by the Villemin spouses, the Jacobs said they had
"confidence"
in justice, while stressing that "
she mustn't shoot the wrong ambulance
.
"