Victorine's alleged murderer lived in the same neighborhood

A week ago, he published on YouTube a video composed of esoteric drawings, a tribute to Victorine Dartois.

He was unaware then that his brother was going to be arrested and confess the murder of the 18-year-old girl found dead on September 28 - two days after her disappearance - in a stream in Villefontaine (Isère).

This Wednesday, he has “nothing more to say” about his brother, Ludovic B. For several days, investigators from the Grenoble research section have been discreetly investigating this young man, arrested Tuesday afternoon by the gendarmes of elite of the GIGN.

Placed in custody, the 25-year-old suspect did not know Victorine personally but, according to corroborating sources, he admitted having killed the young woman.

The custody of Ludovic B. was extended this Wednesday afternoon.

He could be referred this Thursday.

On Wednesday afternoon, the gendarmes seized the suspect's car as well as many personal effects.

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Murder of Victorine: fear and emotion in Villefontaine

Known to the courts in particular for narcotics cases, Ludovic B., born in the Rhône, is described as a "local petty delinquent" by a source close to the investigation.

An acquaintance of the suspect evokes for his part a "normal boy, even if he had changed quite a bit for a little over a year because of his drug consumption".

Father of a toddler, married for more than three years, the young man appears, on his Facebook profile, on a large displacement scooter, in a swimming pool with a sea view or sitting on the hood of a car luxury.

A former friend says he is "very touched" and also evokes the tumultuous relations of Ludovic B. with his in-laws and with his wife.

“There were often shouts at his place.

We heard screams, ”says a neighbor.

Another also evokes the consumption of cocaine by the young man.

This Wednesday, several relatives of the young man, manager of a small transport company, emptied his apartment located on the ground floor of the Place des Fayards, in the Fougères district in Villefontaine, less than a kilometer from the home of Victorine Dartois parents.

On foot, it takes less than ten minutes, from her small three-story building, to reach the Prairie stadium, where Victorine made her last phone call to her sister, shortly before 7 p.m.

This winding path in old Villefontaine runs along, towards the end, the small stream about forty centimeters deep where Victorine's body was found.

"How can we do that?"

»Wonders, shocked, a former classmate of Ludovic B. specifying that the white march passed just behind his house.

Had he already spotted Victorine in the past?

According to our information, a few days after the discovery of Victorine's body, a gendarme from the Isère group was able to collect, thanks to a witness, valuable information on the identity of the suspect.

Another essential element directed the investigators on the track of Ludovic B. In a garbage container which had been marked by Saint-Hubert, these dogs of the gendarmerie with the formidable flair, the investigators had found, the day after the discovery of the Victorine's body, clothes and shoes likely to belong to the suspect, we learned from sources close to the case, confirming information from Dauphiné Libéré.

Analyzes were carried out on these clothes.

Others are underway to compare the suspect's genetic fingerprint and DNA evidence collected from Victorine's personal effects.

It now remains to know the exact circumstances that led to the death of the young woman.

"It just looks like a bad meeting," said a source close to the investigation.

He would obviously have tried to approach her.

Victorine was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Has the suspect been turned away by the young brunette with blue eyes?

Had he spotted Victorine in the past, or even during her afternoon shopping with her friends?

The Dartois family was "impatient to know who this person is" and "why he did that", confides Me Kelly Monteiro, lawyer for Sylvie and James Dartois, Victorine's parents, in front of the family home.

The council expressed the "relief" of the family to no longer know the suspect "in the streets of Villefontaine".

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This feeling of relief was shared by many residents of this town of 20,000 inhabitants.

"It makes us one less madman in nature," greets a former college friend of the suspect.

Yet he was an ordinary family man.

He was nice, kind.

"Gathered in the small commercial gallery made up of a pharmacy, a hairdressing salon and a café, regulars express their deliverance:" We thought of our little sisters, our daughters, our women.

We were afraid for them.

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