Excavations began at the end of September in Rouvray, in the “Emile Louis cemetery”, the small wood where several victims of the serial killer were discovered.
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The excavations near the “Emile Louis cemetery”, located in Rouvray in Yonne, have been completed since Thursday evening, France Inter learned on Friday October 4, from the Auxerre prosecutor. A dozen “potentially interesting” objects were found, such as a woman’s shoe, a complete piece of clothing, two pieces of fabric, a box of medicines and packaging whose origin remains to be determined, reports France Bleu Auxerre, which also spoke with the prosecutor.
The three textile elements will be analyzed by the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN), to try to determine their age, and for DNA analysis. These analyzes are complex and will take several weeks.
A photo of the item of clothing will be shown to Marie-Jeanne Ambroisine Coussin’s family to see if they recognize it. The excavations aimed to find the rest of the body of this woman who disappeared in 1975 and potential victim of Émile Louis. Part of his skull was discovered by hunters in 2018 at the excavation site. A place located near the “Émile Louis cemetery”, in which the bodies of two of his victims were discovered at the end of 2000.
The cessation of the excavations arouses the anger of Pierre Monnoir, president of the Yonne disabled people’s association and whistleblower in the case of the missing people of Yonne. “We find things and we stop, it’s surprising all the same”he told France Bleu Auxerre. He estimates “this is shameful” for families. “We’re still torturing them. They had hope that things would move forward, and now we’re stopping. I have a nauseating feeling for the families.”