Estelle L., the probable first victim of Gabriel F., the killer of Valence, should have celebrated his 40th birthday on April 5.
She died under the bullets, late Tuesday afternoon in Wolfgantzen (Haut-Rhin), in the parking lot of the Knauf company, specializing in the manufacture of building materials.
Joining the company in 2014 as a human resources manager, this slender and elegant young woman was promoted to human resources manager three years later.
Mother of two daughters, aged 9 and 13, Estelle nurtured projects for her blended family.
After a difficult separation, she had indeed rebuilt her life with Alain and moved to his home, in the town of Orschwihr (Haut-Rhin), in the heart of the Alsatian vineyard.
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The couple had recently been renovating their home so that each child in their new tribe could have a room.
"Estelle had a strong personality, full of projects in mind, dreamed of exotic trips and struggled to lead her professional life and her mother's life simultaneously", laments Céline, her older sister, reached by phone this Thursday evening.
“It's so unfair what happened to him,” she continues.
She was targeted not for who she was but perhaps for what her work represented.
You have to be crazy to confuse a person with the position they occupy in a company.
It happened to him to fire people, of course, but it was never cheerful of heart and that is not what could make him a person to kill anyway!
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Denounced for a twelve-year-old mission
Coincidence or coincidence, the name of Estelle had been thrown in the pasture on social networks through the hashtag #BalancetonDRH.
A movement born in 2018 after the release of Didier Bille's book “DRH, la machine à groyer”, which the author denounced the working methods of human resources departments in large companies.
Estelle L. had found herself swept away by retribution for a twelve-year-old mission within the Emerson company.
It was his first job, landed in 2006 after obtaining a Master 2 in labor law.
She then took part in a restructuring and relocation operation in Lucé (Eure-et-Loir), where the American multinational had just bought a company.
Did Gabriel F. also shoot his former superior?
His hierarchical superior at the time was called Bertrand M. He too had suffered in 2018 the wrath of the movement to denounce HRDs.
However, Tuesday evening, this fifty-something, also installed in the Haut-Rhin, received the visit of a man corresponding to the profile of Gabriel F. at his home.
He was shot without being hit.
Reached by phone, Bertrand M. did not wish to speak.
Did Gabriel F. face Estelle L. and her supervisor at the Emerson company?
The investigation will have to determine it.