The investigating judge in charge of the Tiphaine Véron case, a 36-year-old French woman who disappeared on Sunday July 29, 2018 in Nikko (Japan), recently told the family that she would not go there and that the investigation was about to end.
An unbearable decision for the relatives of the thirties, who recently launched an online petition – “
to ask French justice not to abandon Tiphaine!
-, now approaching 20,000 signatories.
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, can we read in particular in this petition.
After an investigation that they carried out themselves, the relatives of the 30-year-old say they are convinced that she was the victim of a criminal act during her tourist trip, while the Japanese authorities maintain that she fell in a river.
For many months, the family of Tiphaine Véron implored the investigating judge in charge of the case to go to Nikko, a small mountainous town 150 kilometers north of Tokyo, to deepen the investigation with the authorities on the spot.
In vain.
Damien Véron, Tiphaine's brother, hopes to return to Japan in the fall, depending on the reopening of the borders.
“
We are entering a new fight.
We are preparing our trip and defining a roadmap
, ”he explains to
Figaro
.
He plans to meet with Japanese lawyers and private investigators there "
to find evidence
".
"
French justice has identified suspects but they have never been heard
," he laments.
