After thirty-five years without an answer, one of the oldest French “cold cases” was elucidated on September 30, 2021. DNA expertises confirmed that the former gendarme and retired police officer François Vérove, 59, who committed suicide in Grau-du-Roi, in the Gard department, was indeed the “Grêlé”.
Investigators, who nicknamed him because of the marks on his face, was a married man with two children, who wore the uniform all his life. He was wanted by the sleuths of the criminal squad for three murders and five rapes …
Could other crimes be attributed to him ?
In the apartment he had rented, where he killed himself, the police found a letter in which he confessed to having committed several crimes. Who was he ? How was he able to blend in with the daily routine of a quiet life for so long?
In this magazine document “1:15 p.m. on Saturday“(Twitter, #1:15 p.m.) , signed Pauline Dordilly, Henri Desaunay and Nicolas Berthelot, the testimony in particular of the older brother of Cécile Bloch, the eleven-year-old girl who was her first victim in 1986. Her suicide and her imprecise confession mark the end of this affair ? Could other crimes be attributed to him?
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