Is this the end of an almost 30-year-old mystery? Tuesday morning, a fifty-something was arrested as part of the investigation into the murder of Nadège Desnoix, a 17-year-old teenager, killed on May 24, 1994 in Château-Thierry, in the Aisne, learned 20 minutes police sources, confirming information from the Parisian. “The family is attentive to this custody, we will see what comes out of it,” said the family lawyer, Me Arnaud Miel, cautiously. For now, the prosecution refuses to comment.
It is a DNA sample which is at the origin of this spectacular rebound. According to our information, the man “very unfavorably” known to the police services was recently implicated in a case of domestic violence. His DNA was then added to the national automated DNA file – created in 1998, so four years after the murder – and “matched” with that taken at the crime scene. According to a source close to the investigation, the suspect was also known for a child abduction case. How, then, can we explain that his DNA is not already in the file? Was the case prior to its creation? This is what the investigation will have to establish in particular.
The Fourniret slope
In this affair, many avenues were explored, starting with that of Michel Fourniret, the “ogre of the Ardennes”. Comparisons were made in the spring between the DNA discovered on a mattress found in the serial killer’s van and that of the high school student. It is therefore another track that is now privileged, twenty-seven years after the discovery of Nadège Desnoix’s body, on the edge of a path bordering the A4, near the Jules-Verne technical school where she was a student in the first. The autopsy revealed that she had been strangled and stabbed numerous times but had not suffered sexual violence.
The suspect, who resided in the same region as the victim at the time of the facts, is currently being heard by investigators from the Creil judicial police and the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons, which has a unit specializing in treatment. cold cases.