Dear readers,
Like every Sunday, the "
miscellaneous facts
" section of Le
Figaro
offers you a selection of police and legal cases that have marked the week through stories, reports and unpublished archives.
Today, we will return in particular to the ransacking of a church in Angers or the case of three men caught bleeding a sheep in a house in La Baule.
We will also look into the mystery of the body of a man found lifeless under the "
carefully folded
" cover of his swimming pool in Roanne.
Happy reading and have a great weekend,
Nicolas Farmine, journalist in the "
miscellaneous
" section of Le
Figaro
.
You want to testify on a case, write to us at
faitdivers@lefigaro.fr
Files of the week
• In Angers, decapitated statues in a ransacked church
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the departmental directorate of public security (DDSP).
Twitter account of the deputy mayor of Angers, Maxence Henry.
A real "
disaster
".
This Wednesday, April 12 around 2 p.m., Father Alain Cleyssac discovers with horror that his church has been vandalized by criminals, just a few hours after morning mass.
In total, a dozen objects of worship were destroyed;
statues of Christ or Mary were decapitated, the central high altar was destroyed and the crucifix broken.
The event shocked public opinion, the public prosecutor of Angers even considering that this act of vandalism could not be isolated and be the result of "
serial acts
".
In 2021, 857 anti-Christian acts were recorded in France.
The story of our journalist can be read here.
• An investigation opened in Marseille after the death of eight people in the collapse of a building on rue de Tivoli
Last Sunday, the building on rue de Tivoli collapsed overnight, killing eight people aged 28 to 88.
This week, the Marseille prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "
manslaughter
".
Investigators are working on the trail of a “
gas explosion that caused the collapse of the building
”.
In the meantime, nearly two hundred people have been evacuated from around thirty surrounding buildings as a precaution.
• A Chadian student, at the origin of a controversy over the Brav-M, again arrested in Paris
Souleyman A. and two other students were arrested Friday evening in Paris after a trash fire, on the sidelines of the protest movement against the pension reform, learned
Le Figaro
from concordant sources.
This 23-year-old student had already been arrested at the end of March by Brav-M agents.
The remarks of the latter, recorded, had led to the opening of an investigation.
• Three men caught bleeding a sheep in a house in La Baule
“
Unacceptable behavior
” according to the mayor of La Baule (Loire-Atlantique) Franck Louvrier.
Sunday, April 9 around noon, a witness saw three individuals gathered in a house in the town, under renovation.
Inside it, the suspects attack a sheep, bleeding it on the ground.
Caught on the spot, they fled in a dump truck, taking the animal with them.
The case, unprecedented in the sector, prompted the City to file a complaint to allow "
the opening of an investigation
".
• The body of little Marciano, disappeared in Niort, found in a river
This seven-year-old autistic boy had been missing since last Sunday.
He had escaped the vigilance of a friend of his family who kept him with his two brothers in Niort (Deux-Sèvres).
Many means of police research had been put in place to try to find him, in vain.
His body was found lifeless on Friday in the Sèvre river, said the Niort prosecutor's office.
• A 19-year-old woman stabbed in a building hall in Seine-Saint-Denis
On Sunday April 9, a 19-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest, neck and face by a man with whom she allegedly had a past relationship.
During his arrest by the police, the man was alcoholic.
He was taken into custody.
The vital prognosis of the victim is no longer engaged, as Le Figaro
revealed last Monday
.
• The body of a man found under the “
carefully folded
” cover of his swimming pool
Tuesday, April 11, a man in his forties was found dead in his swimming pool in Roanne (Loire), nearly twenty-four hours after his disappearance.
Dispatched to the scene, the police discovered his body in the water of his swimming pool.
Intriguing fact: it was covered with the swimming pool cover, "
carefully folded
", "
well stretched
" and held to the ground by stone slabs.
The Roanne prosecutor, Abdelkrim Grini, dismissed the thesis of the accident.
There remain the hypotheses of suicide or homicide, which cannot be formally accepted at this stage.
The investigation for "
search for the causes of death
" continues.
More details on this intriguing case here.
Yesterday's fact
On April 19, 1993, FBI special troops stormed the "Apocalypse Farm" in Waco, Texas.
Le Figaro of April 21, 1993.
In a few days, it will be exactly 30 years since the Branch Davidian siege of Waco, Texas ended in bloodshed.
At 6 a.m. on April 19, 1993, heavily armed FBI special troops stormed "
the farm of the Apocalypse
," where guru David Koresh and his followers had been living in seclusion and had refused to surrender for 51 days.
The operation is a disaster where 86 people are killed including twenty children, most of them in the fire started by the followers.
Several of them were shot in the head before burning.
“
Based on what we know now, it was a mistake
,” acknowledges Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States as the controversy mounts.
The federal forces had however tried to use other more subtle means of pressure.
A few weeks earlier, the special correspondent for Le
Figaro
had noted, amused, that the FBI was broadcasting heady Buddhist melodies to the farm to make the besieged crack.
Find the story of this international news item.
On the agenda
Monday
: the Paris Criminal Court will deliver its deliberations on the trial of Airbus and Air France in the case of the crash of the Rio-Paris flight.
Tuesday
: two lawyers, Me Cohen-Sabban and Me Nogueras, will be tried at the Paris Criminal Court for acts of "
violation of professional secrecy
" and "
complicity in attempted fraud in judgment
".
They are suspected of having produced forgeries before an assize court in 2018 to exonerate a drug trafficker.
The prosecution requested three and two years in prison, one of which was suspended and a five-year ban on practicing against these two tenors of the Paris bar.
Wednesday
: The sports consultant specializing in football Pierre Ménès is summoned to appear for "
sexual assault
" before the Paris Criminal Court.
To read / To see
“
Air Cocaine
”.
On March 20, 2013, the Dominican authorities narrowly prevented the takeoff of a Falcon 50, leased by a small French airline, from Punta Cana airport.
They suspect the crew of transiting white powder from the Caribbean archipelago to France.
In the aircraft, the police discovered 26 suitcases containing nearly 700 kilograms of cocaine.
How did these four French citizens, seemingly ordinary but well charged with “
drug trafficking
”, come to this?
"
Air Cocaïne
" traces in four episodes of about fifty minutes the genesis, the course and the consequences of this extraordinary legal case.
With, as a bonus, exclusive testimonials from its protagonists and archive images.
To watch on Canal +.
Thank you for reading this newsletter.
We look forward to seeing you next Sunday for a new newsletter devoted to the news of the week.
