The terrorist's name is spelled differently on the mailbox.
Jamel Gorchene, the executioner of Stéphanie, the policewoman killed last Friday at the entrance to the Rambouillet police station (Yvelines) often resided there, in a farmhouse on rue de l'Etang-de-la-Tour, where was domiciled his father.
In this building transformed into seven studios, the Gorchene lived at n ° 6, at the top of a millstone staircase.
Access is free and the place opens onto a long corridor from another time, with its brown tapestry on the walls where a few movie posters are pinned.
The first on entering gives shivers down your spine.
It is “Spotlight on the Assassin”, a 1961 film by Georges Franju with Pierre Brasseur and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
In the hallway of the house, old movie posters ... Stephane CORBY
Last Friday, at 2:20 p.m., fiction caught up with reality.
"We discovered the images of our street on BFMTV, it was crazy," says Philippe, 52, installed on the sidewalk opposite.
The police were crisscrossing the neighborhood, there were RAID men everywhere. ”
"They took the bus with the killer"
“Yes, it's freaking out,” supports his 21-year-old daughter Léa.
We go back in time in our head, telling ourselves that we must have met the killer one day, in the street or on the bus. ”
The father and his daughter had already surprised noisy evenings in the building, and noticed a burnt car parked for several months in the parking lot, but they were far from thinking that a terrorist, a 36-year-old Tunisian delivery driver, was instigating such an act. barbarism close to home.
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The neighborhood of the Gorchene is all the more surprised and shocked as their hamlet, built around the small chapel of Saint-Hubert dating from the 18th century, is renowned for its calm.
"This is even the reason why we chose it", admits Frédéric, installed three years ago in one of the farm buildings which adjoins the one where Jamel Gorchene lived.
The 45-year-old father now admits a retrospective fear.
“My wife and daughters took the bus with the killer, they recognized him in the photos.
They think they even greeted him.
It really makes you think.
My oldest, who will be entering college in September, had to walk there.
But with my wife, we said to ourselves that it was not necessarily a good idea. ”
The police station reopens this Wednesday morning
Three kilometers away, in the city center, the police station remained closed to the public on Tuesday. The prefect of Yvelines and Gérard Larcher, president (LR) of the Senate and former mayor of Rambouillet, came to support the teams on site at the end of the morning. But the access was sealed off by national police officers from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. The police station is to reopen this Wednesday.
All day Tuesday, onlookers followed one another around the place to salute the memory of Stéphanie, 49-year-old mother. Like this former officer of the national navy, who arrived from Bois-d'Arcy on a scooter, two roses in his hand. “I am retired but I am not forgetting my family. And there, it was my family that we hit in the heart, ”he let out tremolos in his voice. Stéphanie's funeral is scheduled for Thursday, in complete privacy but in the presence of Emmanuel Macron.
