Dear readers,
Welcome to this eighth newsletter of Le
Figaro
dedicated to news items.
As every week, we offer you a selection of police and legal cases that have marked the week through stories, reports and unpublished archives of the editorial staff.
On the menu for this Sunday, a happy - and rare - ending!
- of worrying disappearance in Seine-et-Marne, the testimony of a protagonist of the Jubillar affair, but also a dive into the violence of the drug traffickers who undermine Marseille.
I wish you a pleasant reading and a good weekend.
Esther Paolini, 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
• Happy ending in Seine-et-Marne, the day after the disappearance of a jogger
It is a happy epilogue, which news items are not used to.
Friday, concern took hold of Dammartin-en-Goële (Seine-et-Marne), following the disappearance of a jogger, Chloé L., 20 years old.
Significant resources were mobilized to find her, with a hundred gendarmes deployed in the area, supported by 200 volunteers who came to participate in a search attended by
Le Figaro
.
Some 200 volunteers took part in the search in Dammartin-en-Goële on April 22, 2023. Esther Paolini / Le Figaro
She was finally found safe and sound in a Marne campsite on Saturday at midday.
The young woman had run away there with her former boyfriend without telling her relatives or worrying about the significant mobilization of the police to find her.
• Jubillar case: Cédric's mother comes out of silence
Nadine Fabre finds herself in the delicate position of grandmother to the children of the missing Tarn woman and mother of suspect number 1. After long months away from the media, Delphine Jubillar's stepmother has come out of silence, claiming to wish "
one day to know the truth about what happened, in the name of his grandchildren, whatever that truth may be
".
While the investigation is coming to an end and could lead to a trial before the Tarn Assize Court by 2024, we invite you to immerse yourself in the investigation, in five episodes, carried out by Le Figaro
on
this unusual court case.
• In Guyana, the relentless hunt for the murderers of Arnaud Blanc
For three weeks, 500 soldiers have been roaming the Guyanese forest in search of the armed band that killed Constable Arnaud Blanc.
The 35-year-old soldier, father of two, died on March 25 during an operation against illegal gold panning.
Two members of this gang were recently arrested, while a youth surrendered to law enforcement.
But the operation is not over.
We must seek out the last criminals.
The story of this hunt in the heart of the green hell is to be discovered here.
• A frantic quest to find the murderer of Christiane Commeau-Letendre
On October 22, 2004, Christiane Commeau-Letendre vanished on her way home from the supermarket, in Chassieu in the Rhône.
Four months later, his body was discovered in the wood of Nievroz, about twenty kilometers away.
The 54-year-old waitress, a priori uneventful, was killed by two bullets in the head, fired at close range by a .22 long rifle.
The case, which has not been elucidated, has recently been transferred to the cold case center in Nanterre.
Nearly twenty years later, his relatives continue to mobilize to find his killer.
Le Figaro
went to meet them.
Christiane Commeau-Letendre was found dead on February 18, 2005 in the wood of Niévroz, in Ain.
DR.
• In Nantes, a powerless landlord in the face of the illegal occupation of his home
It has been more than a month since the three floors of a building in the Madeleine-Champ de Mars district, in Nantes, have been illegally occupied.
The locks have been changed.
The owner, who can no longer access it, tells Le
Figaro
his daily life which has turned into a "
nightmare
".
Investigation
Since the beginning of the year, fourteen people have died in Marseille due to drug trafficking.
At this rate, the death toll could quickly exceed the 2022 toll, with thirty-one dead.
This war in which the drug traffickers are engaged is no longer confined to the cities, and the victims are increasingly young.
Discover our investigation into the violence of drug traffickers in the heart of Marseille.
Yesterday's fact
On April 23, 1973,
Le Figaro
reported for the first time on a case that had been agitating the Charente for four months.
“
Four people belonging to the same family have not been found since last Christmas night.
On New Year's Eve, Mr. Jacques Mechinaud, his wife Pierrette and their two children Bruno and Éric left by car, around 2 am, friends living in Cognac with whom they had spent the evening.
No one was to see them again.
»
In their house in Boutiers-Saint-Trojan, the refrigerator was full of provisions for the Christmas meal.
It was the neighbor and lover of the young woman who gave the alert.
Despite the searches and excavations, the Simca 1100, into which the boys of 4 and 7 years old eager to open their presents had rushed, will never be found.
Did the cuckold drag his family into death?
Fifty years later, the case was taken over by the Nanterre “cold cases” center created in March 2022.
By our journalist Camille Lestienne.
Archive of Le Figaro from April 23, 1973. Le Figaro
On the agenda
Tuesday:
Terry Dupin appears for three days before the criminal court of Périgueux.
The one who was nicknamed the “
frenzied of the Dordogne
” had presented himself in May 2021 armed at the home of his ex-spouse to attack his new companion.
He then fled for 36 hours of tracking, before being arrested by the GIGN.
Le Figaro
will retrace this case in an upcoming story at the beginning of next week.
Wednesday:
The mayor of Echenon Dominique Lott appears before the Dijon criminal court for possession of child pornography images.
The city councilor had been arrested during a major raid last November by the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP).
Wednesday:
The investigating chamber of the Besançon Court of Appeal renders its decision concerning the former anesthesiologist Frédéric Péchier, who asks to be able to practice medicine while he is being prosecuted for 30 cases of poisoning of patients, including 12 mortals.
To read / To see
Serial killer Charles Sobhraj, nicknamed "
The Serpent
", has been back in France since December 2022, after spending nearly twenty years in prison in Nepal for the murder of two North American tourists.
But he is also suspected of twenty murders in the 1970s in Asia.
Who is hiding behind this potential serial killer profile?
Le Figaro
spoke with Jean-Charles Deniau, a journalist behind a documentary on Charles Sobraj available on the Canal+ platform.
Through several interviews with the person concerned, the documentary depicts a man endowed with an “
incredible ability to manipulate
” those around him.
