Our colleagues from France Blue Country of Savoy had relayed the call for witnesses
launched last May by the Haute-Savoie gendarmerie to find the 51-year-old father suspected of having killed a 10-year-old girl May 12 in Veigy-Foncenex (Haute-Savoie) at the Swiss border.
The girl
was found asphyxiated at her home in Haute-Savoie. It was the victim’s older brother who discovered the body at the family home, according to the Annecy prosecutor’s office. The house had been partially burned down but the girl’s autopsy later concluded that she was not “obviously not deceased because of the fire but of mechanical asphyxiation”. “Unreachable since the evening of the facts”, the father was crossing “marital crisis” with the child’s motheraccording to the same source.
“The girl’s father is actively sought throughout the national territory. He would be likely to travel on board a white Citroën Jumpy registered EK-208-ZL and accompanied by an American Staff dog.__”, investigators said at the time.
The 50-year-old, who is already the subject ofan international arrest warrant, is of “European type”, is 1.76 meters tall and wears “long brown hair” as well as’“a long, thick, slightly graying beard”, specifies the call for witnesses. which is accompanied by two photos of the individual as well as those of his vehicle and his dog.
Seen in Meschers-sur-Gironde
This murder case is experiencing a rebound this Wednesday, October 12, since the gendarmes of Charente-Maritime have just relayed the call for witnesses again on social networks. Investigators are now certain that the fugitive passed through Meschers-sur-Gironde last May. He was seen with his dog in the seaside town of the Royan conurbation.
Precision that may be important. The suspect has “a very good level of sailing” and would be “likely to leave the territory by sea”__, continued the police.
The green number (0800.97.10.71) set up is still active. You can dial it if you have seen the wanted man.