A Moroccan retiree named Mohammed C., arrested last week for his alleged involvement in two long-unsolved murders in Isère, was formally charged on Monday and remains in detention, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien.
The same source mentioned that Mohammed C., 63, was charged on Monday by an investigating judge from the cold case unit of the Nanterre court for the murders of Nathalie Boyer in 1988 and Laïla Afif in 2000.
The former Renault worker was arrested last Wednesday morning at his partner’s apartment in Dijon (Côte-d’Or) after DNA evidence linked him to various objects found at the crime scene related to Laïla Afif.
After being held in police custody, he was presented last Friday to a judge of freedoms, who ordered him to remain in detention while awaiting a transfer warrant issued by the investigating judge.
Both cases are part of the so-called “disappeared from Isère” file. Nathalie Boyer, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Réunion, disappeared on the evening of August 2, 1988, in Villefontaine, not far from Mohammed C.’s home, and was later found murdered.
Laïla Afif, a mother of three, was shot and killed on May 12, 2000, in the small town of La Verpillière. According to her daughter Dounia interviewed on Sunday by the daily newspaper Ouest-France, “the victim knew the suspect.” She added, “I know this family very well. We are friends. They are devastated to hear the news.”
Le Parisien mentioned that “in both cases, it seems the victims were approached by their killer at a bus stop.”
According to his lawyers, Me Emilie Boyé and Pierre-Vincent Connault, Mohammed C., who remains presumed innocent, “firmly denies” the charges against him. After the former Renault worker was charged, the judge of freedoms and detention ordered him to remain in provisional detention.
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