The Paris schoolgirl was reported missing after her parents realized she’d failed to show up for class the morning of May 5, 1986. Prior to last week, Cécile Bloch’s brutal killing was one of France’s oldest unsolved cases. It is very destabilizing.” ‘Le Grêlé’s’ trail of terror “He participated in the discussions about whether we were helping people, how we were helping them.

“He sat on the communal committee for social action,” Lussert said. Jean-Marc Lussert, the former mayor, said he was disturbed to learn of the allegations against his former friend and colleague. Vérove also previously served as a town councilor in Prades-le-Lez, where he lived for many years. One neighbor recalled for France public television a neighborhood meal Vérove organized in 2018. Neighbors in La Grande-Motte, located minutes from where Vérove took his life, expressed shock over the announcement that the friendly husband and father they knew was accused of such violence. “DNA tests which were immediately ordered by the investigating magistrate established a match between the genetic profile found at several crime scenes and that of the dead man,” Beccuau said, France 24 reported. Though Vérove’s note did not detail which crimes he was taking responsibility for, DNA testing done after his death proved he was the serial killer, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said Thursday.

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