Expected for years by many families of victims but also by magistrates, a national judicial center dedicated to “cold cases” should be created on March 1 in Nanterre, Franceinfo has learned.
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A national judicial center dedicated to “cold cases”, unsolved cases, will be created on March 1 in Nanterre, Franceinfo learned on Wednesday, confirming information from 20 minutes. The creation of this pole was provided for in the law for confidence in the judicial institution promulgated on December 23.
This specialized center will therefore be based at the Nanterre court and will be made up of three investigating judges, a public prosecutor, three clerks and two specialist lawyers. He was greatly awaited by the families of the victims, but also by magistrates and investigators.
On Wednesday January 5, Éric Mouzin, father of Estelle Mouzin, kidnapped at the age of 9 by Michel Fourniret on January 9, 2003, wrote a letter to Éric Dupond-Moretti asking him to implement this pole very quickly. national. Its lawyers, Didier Seban and Corinne Hermann have also been fighting for years to advance the understanding of these unsolved crimes and create a real culture of “cold case” within the judicial institution.
This national pole will inherit 241 files: 173 unsolved cases and 68 serial crimes proceedings. The main objective of this creation is to avoid getting bogged down in these complex and old cases, as well as to prevent them from passing from one investigating judge to another at the risk of seeing information leaking out. lose on the way.
The other goal is to allow better coordination between services, to establish connections between crimes, to better analyze the modus operandi of the perpetrators, and “to allow these files”, according to the Minister of Justice this Wednesday in 20 minutes, “to stay alive judicially and to offer a chance of answers to the relatives of the victims.”