12 years after the death of Céline Giboire, her family is fighting for the “cold cases” center to study the case

As the “cold cases” center prepares to celebrate its two years of existence, on March 1, families of victims are fighting to have their cases taken over by the magistrates of Nanterre, specialized in unsolved cases and serial crimes. This is notably the fight of the relatives of Céline Giboire, a 16-year-old teenager found dead at the foot of a cliff in Saint-Malo, in Ille-et-Vilaine, on February 28, 2012. It has been twelve years since an investigation is opened for rape and murder, but the investigation is at a standstill.

On the morning of February 28, 2012, joggers discovered the body of Céline Giboire on a small beach in Saint-Malo. The day before, the teenager attending first grade in Rennes skipped classes, after having an argument with a friend. Witnesses then saw her hitchhiking, then a couple came across her at nightfall in the Corbières park, which overlooks a beach in Saint-Malo. She will then no longer give any sign of life.

No rogatory commission in progress

Céline fell about fifteen meters. His body was found 32 meters from the point of impact, partly submerged. His death was caused by his fall and drowning. “The doctors who will carry out the autopsy will say that she was raped and that it was a homicide”explains Laura, Céline’s twin sister.

But a second expertise, carried out on the basis of the documents of the first, will say that the injuries observed by the forensic experts could be due to the young girl’s fall on the rocks, and not necessarily to rape. The first investigators of the judicial police will very quickly move towards the hypothesis of Céline’s suicide, which is still incomprehensible today for Laura. “I was the person closest to her, I don’t believe that she decided to end her life, that I saw nothing and that she left me nothing. No, I don’t hear it“, she said very moved.

A clue that doesn’t hold up either in the eyes of Mélanie, Céline and Laura’s big sister, now 35 years old: “Her handbag was found hidden by branches, her identity card was never found. A few days later, her vital card was found between two large stones, she lists, and supposedly it’s a suicide theory?”

Inconsistencies have been pointed out for several years by criminal lawyer Franck Berton, the lawyer for Céline Giboire’s sisters. Twelve years later, the judicial investigation for “rape” and “murder” is still open but no commission of request is in progress, indicates the Rennes prosecutor. Philippe Astruc specifies to franceinfo that in 2016, the investigations did not make it possible to characterize the offenses of rape and murder. And he explains that no new element has made it possible to modify these conclusions. However, the file is still not closed.

Free the speech of possible witnesses

The ultimate hope of Mélanie and all of Céline Giboire’s family is now that the national center for serial or unsolved crimes located in Nanterre will take over the case, to re-examine it and relaunch investigations. “I know that there are people who know something, so I ask them to speak, first of all, probably because it will free them. And second, in the end, it will also free us from certain things, knowing, implores Mélanie, Céline’s big sister. Our file must be taken over from A to Z.”

“I know deep down I won’t give up, but I’m crying out for help.”

Mélanie, big sister of Céline Giboire

at franceinfo

A call for help that Mélanie launches especially to the cold case center of Nanterre, in the hope that it will take up this file and relaunch the investigations, to one day perhaps learn the truth about the death of her sister.