“It’s normal to request expertise regularly to benefit from advances in science,” says the lawyer for Estelle Mouzin’s family.

“It’s normal to request expertise regularly to benefit from advances in science”, estimated Friday March 22 Corinne Herrmann, lawyer in particular for Éric Mouzin. At the request of the family of little Grégory Villemin, justice will order new expertise, 40 years after finding the child’s body in Vologne (Vosges).

New DNA expertise will be carried out in particular on the cords which bound little Grégory’s hands and feet, but also on the anonymous letters received by the family. “Forensic science is evolving at a speed that one cannot imagine when one is not a specialist,” she emphasizes.

Seeking the truth, “a duty”

The gendarmes’ investigation at the time was called into question, in particular on the way in which the material elements had been collected and preserved: “Nothing ventured, nothing gained”she says. “Indeed at the time, we did things differently. We could even have people who had the seals in their hands and who could have polluted them. However, we have to look”she says.

In this very particular affair which has held France in suspense for decades, continuing the search for the truth is, according to her, “a duty towards this family because justice has really malfunctioned in this case”, believes Corinne Herrmann. Justice must “a little to all of us, because we have been following this case for so long and so we have to try”she added.