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Murder of Victorine: fear and emotion in Villefontaine

2020-10-07T20:30:30.113Z


The death of the 18-year-old student fuels a certain climate of fear in Villefontaine (Isère), where many fear that the murderer is


Almost compulsively, they pull on a cigarette that helps them contain their tears.

A week after the discovery of the body of their friend Victorine, on Monday September 28, in a stream in Villefontaine (Isère), they wanted to place a new white rose at the foot of the cross erected in memory of the 18-year-old young woman.

“We were with her in college and high school, whisper the two friends.

She was our friend.

It's hard.

»In the parking lot of the Stade de la prairie, a few meters from where the student was allegedly assaulted, they discuss with Harry, a classmate of Victorine in BTS communication.

Close to the young girl, he cannot hold back his tears.

"For a week now I haven't been getting anywhere," said the boy.

We need to know who did this to him.

In Villefontaine, the emotion is still strong, but gives way little by little to fear, guided by this haunting question: who could have killed Victorine Dartois?

VIDEO.

Great emotion for Victorine's funeral

In ten days, in this commune of Isère of 20,000 inhabitants, closer to the Lyon suburbs than the snow-capped peaks of the Alps, habits have changed.

Parents who can wait for their teens when they leave high school.

Children no longer go to football training alone at the Prairie stadium.

“The area already had a bad reputation before, breathes Yasmine.

However, I still accompanied my son on foot because we live right next door.

But tonight

(Editor's note: Tuesday),

I didn't want to take the same path as poor Victorine on my own ... "" Now, if my son misses the bus, I'll go get him ", also promises Fouad, present at the stadium. football the night Victorine disappeared.

“The emotion is strong, the shock terrible, also confides Father Stéphane Simon, who again gathered this Wednesday evening the comrades of Victorine's parish to exchange and discuss.

We also sense a little concern among these young people, ”used to frequenting the same places as the youngest of the Dartois family.

"He must be stopped, and quickly"

"We must know, launches, almost like a plea, a friend who spent the afternoon with Victorine on the day of her disappearance.

We all wonder who did that, if it is the misfortune of chance, if it is someone we know… ”Absent this Sunday during the white march, but came to lay a rose on Tuesday evening, Jeremy and his partner sums up the general feeling: “He needs to be stopped, and fast.

For the family of course, but for the whole city too.

"

Aware of the grip of fear on the town, the gendarmes "doubled the patrols in the area", underlines General Yann Tréhin, who commands the Isère group.

A mobile gendarmerie squadron is also present as a reinforcement, and multiplies identity checks in the area of ​​the stadium, as much to reassure as to inform investigators of the presence of a possible curious suspicious.

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Ten investigators from the Grenoble research section are now working full time on this investigation within the HomRoche cell - Hom for homicide, Roche for the village stuck to Villefontaine where the body of the young woman was discovered.

A proof "of the seriousness with which this investigation is taken", greets Me Kelly Monteiro, the lawyer of the Dartois family.

Ten investigators under the authority of three investigating judges are leading the investigations to trace the thread of Victorine's murder./DR  

The gendarmes are now under the authority of three investigating judges, who are carrying out investigations for "kidnapping and kidnapping" - to understand what happened between the disappearance of the young girl and the discovery of her body -, and "Murder".

According to someone close to the investigation, more than a hundred seals have been analyzed or are still being appraised.

Samples were taken in particular in the stream in order to compare the water flowing there and that found in the lungs of the young woman.

The objective is to confirm that Victorine was indeed drowned in the place where her body was found.

In a few days, the gendarmes also carried out “130 hearings of witnesses” and contacted “662 people in the neighborhood investigation”.

On Saturday, at the scene of Victorine's disappearance, they questioned the drivers of “1,100 vehicles” and “63 pedestrians” used to this sector.

People at the funeral photographed

This Wednesday again, discreetly, the investigators of the SR of Grenoble came to photograph the people present in the crowd for Victorine's funeral.

"Prowler, theft that would have gone wrong ... all avenues are being considered," said a source close to the investigation.

We can also be dealing with an acquaintance of the victim, a discussion which degenerates, an argument… ”

An uncertainty which could last and which weighs on Villefontaine, where everyone is constructing more or less probable theories ranging from “psychopath” to a “bunch of jealous girls”.

"Victorine, she knew how to defend herself if she was annoyed, so she must have been approached by someone she knows," Harry imagines.

Many residents also believe that "you have to be local to know this stream, you can't see it from the road".

The specter of a "local guy", of an acquaintance, also haunts Victorine's friends, according to whom the young girl, "fearful", would have "never let herself be approached by anyone.

So inevitably, we say to ourselves that maybe it was someone she knows who did that… It would be even worse… ”

Source: leparis

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