As part of the investigation into the murder of little Jonathan Coulom, found dead feet and hands tied in a pond in Guérande in May 2004, the Nantes public prosecutor launched on Tuesday March 9 a call for witnesses accompanied by three images the prime suspect, German serial killer Martin Ney.
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On January 25, the German child criminal Martin Ney was indicted in this case.
While serving a life sentence in Germany since 2012 for three murders of young boys and forty sexual assaults on minors, the pedophile was placed at the disposal of the French authorities for a period of 8 months as part of the Jonathan Coulom case.
The investigation around the disappearance of the little boy had in particular been relaunched by the confessions of Martin Ney's fellow detainee in Germany, who had reported to investigators details of the case that only the culprit could know.
"
He
[Martin Ney, Editor's note]
told me several times (...) that he, over there in France, abused a boy and that he killed him,
" said in 2017 his cellmate to the police, reports
Le Parisien
.
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The track of Martin Ney being therefore privileged in this cold-case, the parquet floor of Nantes launched an appeal for witnesses, seventeen years after the facts.
“
Between 1990 and 2011, if you have seen or think you have seen this man, with an imposing 1.96 m stature, if you have rented or lent him accommodation and you are able to locate the place or the period, thank you to contact the departments concerned
”by email to cell-disparition-44@gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr, or by post to Cellule Disparition 44- BP 33284 - 35032 RENNES CEDEX.
"
Any information, even trivial is likely to advance the investigation and help the family of this little boy to discover the truth,
" added the prosecution.
