The Blois prosecutor's office announced on Friday that it had appealed the indictment of the investigating judge, due to different criminal qualifications, in the case of the "little martyr of the A10", found dead and mutilated in 1987.
“
The indictment order retaining different criminal qualifications, the prosecution has appealed against this order
”, can we read in a press release sent to the media on Friday evening.
The prosecution had requested a referral to the assizes for aggravated voluntary homicide for the mother and complicity in aggravated murder for the father.
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However, on November 25, 2022, the investigating judge issued an indictment order reclassifying the facts as "
willful violence resulting in death without intention to give it (...)
" for the mother and "
complicity
" for the father.
The body of an unknown girl, nicknamed the "
Little martyr of the A10
", was found in a ditch on the A10 motorway by two employees of the Cofiroute company, in Suèvres (Loir-et-Cher), in August 1987. The corpse bore marks of violence including traces of burns from an iron and scars from human bites, probably from a woman, according to forensic doctors.
DNA statements, the key to the case
It was only about thirty years later that the investigators had gone back to the parents, until then unknown, of the little girl named Inass, thanks to a DNA sample taken from her brother, arrested in 2016 in a case of violence.
After comparison with the National Automated DNA File (FNAEG), a match had been revealed with DNA traces on the clothes and the blanket in which the child's body was wrapped.
Thanks to the brother's DNA, the investigators were able to identify and trace the parents, a couple in their sixties, from Morocco and who had seven children.
The parents had been indicted in June 2018 for murder, concealment of a corpse and habitual violence against a minor under the age of 15.