Gabriel Fortin, the “HRD killer” already indicted for two assassinations in Drome and Ardèche, remained “totally silent” in front of the investigators who questioned him on a third assassination committed in the Haut-Rhin, a announced Thursday the parquet floor of Colmar.
He was taken into custody in Valence (Drôme) by the gendarmes of the Strasbourg Research Section, "suspected" of having murdered Estelle Luce on January 26 in Wolfgantzen (Haut-Rhin), said the prosecutor of the Republic of Colmar, Catherine Sorita-Minard, in a press release.
Interviewed Wednesday and Thursday, he "did not wish to answer the investigators' questions and remained completely silent," she continued.
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Extracted from the Valence remand center, Gabriel Fortin has been in pre-trial detention since his indictment for the assassinations committed on January 28 of Patricia Pasquion, an executive at Pôle Emploi, and Géraldine Caclin, HRD of an Ardèche company.
Shot dead, Estelle Luce was found in her car, in the parking lot of her company in Wolfgantzen, near Colmar, on January 26 at the end of the afternoon.
On the same day, another HRD, Bertrand M., with whom the victim had worked in 2008 in a company in Eure-et-Loir, was shot without being hit, also in Haut-Rhin.
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This assassination attempt was committed by a man who turned out to be Gabriel Fortin, an engineer dismissed by the company at the time when the two HRDs were working there, the Mulhouse prosecutor's office had indicated.
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The Colmar prosecutor's office "plans to relinquish jurisdiction" in this case in the coming days in favor of the Valence prosecutor's office after the conclusion of the preliminary investigation, said Ms. Sorita-Minard.
