According to information from our colleagues from Telegram
confirmed to franceinfo by a source close to the investigation, gendarmes from the Diane cell, the Division of unsolved cases, proceeded on Tuesday to excavations in the town of Port-Launay under the authority of the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office and the “cold-case” section of this court. So far, these searches have turned up nothing. They have yet to continue.
Hosted in Châteaulin
Excavations that take place within the framework of the disappearance of Khadidja Bengrine, a 20-year-old young woman who had disappeared between Châteaulin and Quimperlé in 2004. According to a source close to the investigation, in March 2003, this Haut-Savoyarde from Annemasse arrived at Quimper station with her younger sister. They then meet a man, a 37-year-old former legionnaire who offers to accommodate them in Châteaulin. The older sister, Khadidja, stays with him. The youngest returns to Haute-Savoie.
According to our information, the young woman and the former legionnaire get together and open a pizzeria in the Bourgneuf district, in Quimperlé. Some time later, between May and June 2004, Khadidja Bengrine vanishes.
Unsolved cases
Created in March 2022, the unit dedicated to unsolved cases took over last March 77 cases
for which there had been no recent acts of investigation. The oldest of these files is that of Ludovic Janvier, which dates back to 1983. The most recent concerns the Tiphaine Véron case, who disappeared in 2018 in Japan. This type of investigation allows a magistrate to investigate not on a fact, but on the whole life course of a defendant, by looking for matches with unsolved cases.