The file of the disappearance of Tiphaine Véron will be transferred to the new national pole dedicated to "cold cases" - unsolved cases -, based in Nanterre, learned
Le Figaro
by his brother Damien Véron.
"
It's a relief to know that investigations will finally take place
," he explains.
The “official” transfer should take place by the end of the month, confirms the family lawyer, Me Corinne Herrmann.
Tiphaine Véron disappeared on Sunday July 29, 2018 in Nikko, a small mountainous town 150 kilometers north of Tokyo.
This then 36-year-old Frenchwoman, originally from Poitiers and school life assistant, was preparing to visit the temples of the city.
Organized and methodical, the thirty-year-old had prepared her trip down to the smallest detail.
Her trace was lost at the hotel where she was staying: the “
Turtle Inn
” in Nikko.
All his belongings - suitcase, clothes, passport - were found in his room on Monday July 30, 2018 in the morning.
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In July 2022, the investigating judge based in Poitiers, in charge of the investigation for "
kidnapping and forcible confinement
", decided to close the investigations without going to Japan.
To the chagrin of those close to Tiphaine Véron.
The latter chose a new lawyer in October 2022: Me Corinne Herrmann, a criminal lawyer specializing in unresolved cases.
“
We have to give this case another chance
,” she confided to us at the time.
Since the disappearance of Tiphaine Véron, her relatives have been fighting to try to understand what happened to her.
They absolutely do not believe in the accidental track, brandished by the Japanese police since the beginning of the investigation.
"
I still believe in it, I will never give it up
," Damien Véron told us in June 2022, on the occasion of the release of a book in which he recounts his fight, between France and Japan, in the company of her other sister Sybille.