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Who is Martin Ney, the pedophile suspected of the murder of Jonathan Coulom?

2021-02-26T05:46:18.131Z


FOCUS - Little known to the French authorities, this serial killer, nicknamed “the man in black”, has nevertheless been involved in numerous rapes and murders of children in Germany.


"

Is one of the worst child murderers in Germany responsible for the death of a boy in France?"

On January 23,

Bild

wonders after the extradition to France of Martin Ney, 49, sentenced in Germany for having killed three young boys and sexually abusing more than 40 children.

The one that the media across the Rhine nickname "The man in black"

("Schwartzman", Editor's note)

or "The masked man"

("Der Maskenmann", Editor's note)

terrorized Germany for two decades.

Read also: Jonathan Coulom case: a German pedophile denounced by his fellow inmate

"

In France, no one knows Martin Ney, and yet he is a suspect in the Jonathan Coulom affair

,"

the head of the central criminal intelligence service of the national gendarmerie (IRCGN)

told

Figaro

.

Since January 2021, and for eight months, the criminal has been in the hands of the Nantes examining magistrate Stéphane Lorentz, who, since 2004, has been carrying the case for the murder of little Jonathan Coulom.

Aged 10, Jonathan was found dead in April 2004 in the pond of a manor house in Guérande, hands and feet tied, weighted with a concrete block, while he was in a holiday center in Saint-Brevin- les-Pins, in Loire-Atlantique.

In October 2019, a European arrest warrant was issued against Martin Ney, allowing the French authorities to indict the German pedophile on January 25, 2021 for "murder of a minor under 15 and arrest , kidnapping and forcible confinement, or arbitrary diversion of minors under the age of 15 ”.

The double life of a child educator

Born on December 12, 1970 in Bremen, in the north of Germany, in Lower Saxony, Martin Ney first considered a military career before finally becoming a children's educator.

After having sent his application to social services, he also becomes a foster family, and is entrusted with a young boy with whom he will live for 4 years, reports

Bild

.

His entourage, questioned by the daily newspaper, describes him as "

a nice guy

", "

discreet and friendly

".

To read also: Murder of Jonathan Coulom: 17 years after the facts, a German serial killer indicted

Martin Ney, however, leads a double life.

Then barely 22 years old, it was in holiday camps in northern Germany that he committed his first acts of sexual delinquency, targeting young boys.

According to a Munich psychiatrist interviewed by

Le Parisien

, from childhood, Martin Ney felt a powerful attraction for prepubescent boys.

If his status as an educator facilitates his intrusions into day camps, Martin Ney is not limited to it.

During the 1990s, at night, the pedophile also entered boarding schools, or even private homes, after having carried out scouting.

In the Bremen region in 1992, a serial pedophile rapist worried the German authorities.

A masked man broke into an orphanage in Hepstedt, north Bremen on several occasions in the middle of the night, abusing several children.

This sexual aggressor was also rife between 1992 and 1998 in youth hostels in Badenstedt and Zeven, a few kilometers from Hepstedt, where several boys aged between 9 and 13 were touched.

Also in Bremen, parents alert the police to someone who has entered their homes and abused their children.

In total, in the 90s, around forty children were thus victims of sexual abuse, of which Martin Ney admits to having been the author.

Sentenced to life in 2012

The German pedophile committed his first murder in 1992, in a boarding school in Schessel, Lower Saxony, in northern Germany.

The little Stefan Jahr, 13, is missing.

He was found five weeks later, buried, his hands tied, in the dunes of Verden, a town about 30 kilometers from Schessel.

In 1995, a little boy from Selker Noor summer camp, Dennis Rostel, 8, was also missing.

German tourists found his body two weeks later buried near Vinderup, Denmark, where

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the killer spent a few days in a holiday home with the child, before strangling him.

Finally, in 2001, the bed of 9-year-old Dennis Klein was found empty by his fellow boarders in Bremerhaven.

Two weeks later, his body was found on a road not far from a forest, between Kirchtimke and Hepstedt.

Faced with the disturbing similarities between these various murders and that of Jonathan Coulom in France, in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, German investigators immediately suspect the "masked man" to be at the origin of the kidnapping.

"

We notice that, each time, it is the same operating mode, the same staging, and always in holiday camps or boarding

schools," comments to the

Figaro

Me Catherine Salsac, lawyer for Jonathan's mother.

There is also a recurrence, in the sense that each crime is committed three or four years apart,

”she continues.

The possible guilt of Martin Ney in the Jonathan Coulom affair is all the more considered by German investigators as his cellmate reportedly reported Martin Ney's confession to the police, giving details that only the attacker could know.

Heard for the first time by the German police in 2007 for acts of sexual abuse, Martin Ney was not convicted, however, for lack of evidence.

Arrested again in 2011, he recognized a series of crimes committed in 1992, 1995, and 2001. He was sentenced to life on February 27, 2012 by the regional court in Stade, near Hamburg.

Today, despite the revelations of his fellow prisoner about his involvement in the Jonathan Coulom affair, Martin Ney denies being the author of the murder of little Jonathan.

According to

Le Parisien

, he is also suspected in other criminal cases in Poland, Greece and South America.

Source: lefigaro

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