The French islands are places synonymous with a change of scenery and holidays, where crime does not exist... a priori. Le Figaro went on the trail of criminal cases that marked the Atlantic coast. Because behind these postcard decorations are sometimes hidden unbearable closed doors that can lead the human being to the worst.
At low tide, a large rocky foreshore emerges from the beach of l'Écuissière on the island of Oléron, revealing a fish lock. This is the time when children with yellow waxes proudly equipped with plastic buckets appear. They splash around in a school of black peat and howl with joy at the discovery of a crab. Some Sunday walkers also come to the coast bordered by blond dunes to collect cockles and tellines. This January 16, 2022, one of them stumbles on something. Human bones. One foot and one shin.
The gendarmes were immediately sent to the scene. The beach is raked, searched from top to bottom. On the island of Oléron, it is whispered that it could be the remains of Lysiane Fraigne, the baker of the port of La Cotinière, a small fishing village of 900 inhabitants. Missing in 2015, her body has never been found.
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They had to cut it into pieces," Claude presumes, hitting with his shovel the crushed ice that covers his oyster stall. The 78-year-old fisherman, oyster farmer at the La Cotinière market, has forged his hypothesis. "They put the pieces in bags and boarded a Zodiac at the hold of La Cotinière or at the beach of La Perroche to then disperse the limbs. Because, even weighted with cinder blocks or pigs, a body, it goes up. While, in pieces, in bags well weighed down and scattered in different places, it is nowhere to be found, "adds the oyster merchant.
But the bones found on the strike of the Écuissière are not those of Lysiane Fraigne...
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