She, her children and her grandchildren can’t take it anymore. The widow of Bernard Laroche, killed by the father of little Grégory, a four-year-old child found dead with his hands and feet tied in Vologne (Vosges) on October 16, 1984, almost 40 years ago, expressed on BFMTV a few days after the release of a comic book on the affair prefaced by Jean-Marie Villemin.
His declarations among our colleagues strangely take us back to this era that we thought was definitely over, the one when “the affair of little Gregory” unleashed resentment and passions, justifications. This Sunday, the widow of Bernard Laroche, (killed by Jean-Marie Villemin in 1985, Gregory’s father convinced that he was the culprit) Marie Ange Laroche, came to testify to her pain and her incomprehension.
But she also found herself once again, under questions from journalists, having to defend her “kind” husband who “would never have harmed a child”, she “is convinced of that”. Just like her sister, Murielle Bolle, who had incriminated her husband in a first statement before retracting. “She could not have lived with that on her conscience,” she assured our colleagues.
Between suppressed anger and restrained sobs, Marie Ange Laroche still managed to get her message across. That of leaving her and her descendants alone. Angry because even though she is missing, her husband is still considered by many to be the prime suspect in the little boy’s death. “We have to stop scolding Bernard every time there is something,” she asserts. “We have to say stop, so we can find the truth. We are in a machine to destroy ourselves. We don’t live, we survive. »