Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well!
Last time, I told you about the Georges Pouille case, which took more than two decades to yield answers. But this case is part of an even larger one that has been tormenting the victims’ families with a whirlwind of questions and outrage for over 40 years now. This case is centered around 12 murders and disappearances of children in the Grenoble area (Southeastern France) between 1980 and 1996.
Warning: this case involves child abuse and murder, so as always, if you don’t feel up to reading about it, go watch a video of kittens—that’s totally fine. I’ll even put one right here.
Also, a little clarification before we get started: Isère isn’t a city, but a department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Now, if you’re ready, let’s go.

The disappearances

Philippe Pignot, 13 years old

He disappeared on August 25, 1980, in La Morte. He was never found, and unfortunately, nothing more is known about him or the investigation that followed his disappearance. Although he was the first person to go missing in the case, he seems to have been forgotten.

Ludovic Janvier, 6 years old

The Janvier family had just moved from the Sarthe region to Saint-Martin-d’Hères. The parents, Jean-Bernard and Maryline, had brought their sons Jérôme (7), Ludovic (6), and Nicolas (2) with them, but had left their youngest daughter, Virginie (5), with her grandparents while they settled in.
Jérôme and Ludovic were adjusting together to this new environment. The two boys were inseparable: sleeping in the same room, wearing the same clothes, and getting into the same troubles.
So it was only natural that when Jean-Bernard asked them to go get him some cigarettes from the tobacco shop on March 17, 1983, the two boys set off together after finishing their homework, taking Nicolas with them.
The tobacco shop was only about a hundred meters from the family home, so the three children bought the cigarettes without incident. It’s on the way back, while they were fooling around a bit, that a man called out to them. He was about 5’5” tall and wearing a blue motorcycle helmet, blue overalls, and black work boots with zippers.
He explained to the children that he lost his dog and needed help looking for it. He also promised them candy in exchange for their help. Naturally, the children wanted the candy and agreed to help. Following the man’s instructions, they split up: Jérôme and Nicolas went one way, and Ludovic went with the mysterious man the other way. That was the last time Jérôme saw his brother.
Once he returned to his worried parents’ home, he explained the situation, and the police were immediately called.
Investigators used the description provided by Jérôme to create and distribute a composite sketch, which unfortunately yielded no results. And thus began the agonizing wait.
A month later, the clerk of the Grenoble courthouse received an anonymous call stating that Ludovic was in good health and living with a childless couple. The man who called said he wanted to reassure the family after reading an article in a Reims (Northeastern France) newspaper. Maryline Janvier, Ludovic’s mother, also received a call, though this one was much shorter: “We have Ludovic, he’s fine. If you make this public, we’ll cross the border.”
No leads emerged from these calls, which were impossible to trace at the time (remember, this is 1983).
Lacking evidence, the investigators began to suspect the parents, who were soon taken into custody. It’s unclear exactly what happened to Maryline, but we know that Jean-Bernard was stripped naked, tied to a radiator, and beaten. Even in 1983, this was considered a human rights violation, but nothing happened to these investigators, if we can even call them that.
Since that lead (that wasn’t really a lead) turned up nothing, the investigators released the parents, who were now even more traumatized, and focused on sex offenders in the area. One of them, Guy Romero, was eventually arrested. He had a history of indecent exposure involving children, but when Jérôme saw his photo, he assured the investigators that he was not the one who kidnapped Ludovic. Despite this, Guy Romero was taken into custody and went on a hunger strike. He was eventually cleared of all charges, and with that, the investigators’ last “lead” became a dead end. Who were these investigators? They kinda sucked at this.

Grégory Dubrulle, 7 years old

Grégory was an ordinary little boy from Grenoble. On July 9, 1983, he was sitting on the steps of his apartment building, waiting for his brother to go play. That’s when a three-door Renault car pulled up next to him. The driver was about 5’7” to 5’8”, and looked to be between 28 and 35 years old. He had a tattoo on his bicep: a heart pierced by an arrow and marked with two initials joined by a plus sign.
The man said he needed help finding his way, and coincidentally Grégory’s verbal directions weren’t enough. He then offered to let the boy get in the car with him so he could show him directly, which Grégory did. It was when he pointed out the destination to the man and the man kept driving that he realized he had been abducted. After that, nothing.
He regained consciousness the next day, raped, his skull fractured. He gathered what little strength he had in his small, battered little body and dragged himself to a trail, where he was rescued by a motorist.
Despite his memory loss, he managed to describe his abductor to the investigators, who unfortunately were unable to find any leads.
Grégory is the only one of the missing children of Isère to be found alive.

Unidentified bones, 6-7 years old

In February 1985, human remains were discovered in a cave in the Vercors Massif. Despite the limited state of forensic science at the time, investigators were able to determine that they belonged to a child between the ages of 6 and 7. For a time, investigators believed they had found Ludovic Janvier, and Le Dauphiné Libéré even confirmed this theory on its front page on March 9. Jérôme saw this front page and brought the newspaper to his parents, who knew nothing about the case. They called the investigators, who assured them that the bones had not yet been identified. They hoped to do so through dental analysis, but unfortunately, Ludovic had never been to the dentist.
Efforts to identify the bones ended there.

Anissa Ouadi, 5 years old

Little Anissa disappeared on June 27, 1985 in Grenoble while she was out playing with her older brother and sister. Around 7 p.m., it started to rain, and the two older children hurried back home, without realizing that Anissa wasn’t behind them. Their mother quickly began to worry, since Anissa was nearly completely deaf and didn’t speak very well. Moreover, she was quite timid, so it was impossible that she had wandered off on her own.
The family began searching for her and eventually called the police around 10 p.m. The search continued, but no one had seen anything, since everyone had gone inside to take shelter.
On July 9, the little girl was found strangled and drowned at the Beauvoir Dam, about 50 kilometers from Grenoble. Her body showed no signs of abrasions, which means she was not swept away by the current and was likely drowned where she was found. No lead ever came up.

Charazed Bendouiou, 10 years old

It was 1987. Charazed lived in Bourgoin-Jallieu with her large family (10 or 11 children, the sources differ). She was a quiet, kind little girl, known in the neighborhood for her smile and her helpful nature. On August 3, she asked her mother if she could go out to play. Her mother agreed, on the condition that Charazed take out the trash. So the little girl left with a cardboard box she was supposed to bring back up. She went downstairs swinging her braids, with her little yellow dress with white stripes, and her flip-flops. She didn’t come back up.
Half an hour after she left, it started to rain, so the family began to worry. They began searching for her in the neighborhood, without success. Two of the children then went to a payphone to call the police around 6 p.m.
As soon as the police arrived, Ferouz, who is a year older than Charazed, had to take charge of certain things, particularly translating for her parents, who did not speak French very well.
The search was organized, and vehicles, dogs, and a helicopter were mobilized. Descriptions were also broadcasted in French and Arabic. Unfortunately, this yielded no results.
Witnesses, however, claimed to have seen Charazed approach a navy blue Renault 5. This car also appeared in the testimony of a friend of Charazed’s, Angélique. The girl told investigators that she had seen this car before in the neighborhood, and that the driver had even offered to give her a ride. Fortunately for her, she had refused. The car and its driver were never identified.
Another vehicle caught investigators’ attention after the fact. Charazed’s father and some neighbors told investigators about a light-colored RV parked in the neighborhood, though no one knew who owned it. That vehicle, too, was never identified.
Unable to question these suspicious drivers, the investigators began searching for sexual predators in the area. One of them was far too close. He was a teacher at the school where Charazed and Ferouz attended, and was the subject of allegations of inappropriate sexual contact. When questioned, he admits to the molestations but insists he never harmed Charazed, and only attacked children at school (how nice of him). His schedule exonerates him.
Another man from the area, Marcel, was recently placed under judicial supervision for the sexual assault of a minor. Questioned in October, he struggled to provide an alibi, but was nonetheless released by investigators for a reason that will forever elude us.
We also learn that a few months before Charazed’s disappearance, another child from the neighborhood was sexually assaulted by a man described as blond in a garbage shed. This man also remains unidentified (get used to this kind of sentence—you’ll be hearing it a lot).
The investigation started to stall, but the family didn’t know it. Charazed’s father went to the police station every day to check on the investigation, but they eventually made it clear to him that it was better for him to wait at home; he would be notified when there would any news. So the family waited, still convinced that Charazed would come back. The supplies for her first day of fifth grade, bought after she had already disappeared, were waiting in her room.

Nathalie Boyer, 15 years old

Nathalie was tall for her age. Originally from Réunion, she was a quiet, studious, devout young girl enjoying her summer vacation.
On August 2, 1988, she left her home in Villefontaine to go for a walk with friends. They saw her for the last time in the Pivolière neighborhood.
When her mother didn’t see her return, she alerted the police, who launched a search. But Nathalie would not come home.
The next morning, her body was found on a path near a railroad track in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. Her throat had been slit, likely at a location other than where she was found. It is known that she was dragged, since one of her shoes was missing. However, the autopsy report is unclear regarding possible sexual assault. Tire tracks were found near the crime scene, but they were not analyzed.
Despite this disappointing start to the investigation, a lead emerged. A friend of Nathalie’s told investigators that the teenager was killed because she knew too much about certain people. The people in question were a neighboring couple, whom Nathalie’s friend accused of showing pornographic films to teenage girls in the neighborhood—including Nathalie—and raping one of them. The couple was, of course, questioned, but their alibi exonerated them of Nathalie’s murder. It is unclear what became of the other allegations.
With no new leads, the investigation quickly lost momentum.

That same year, the investigation regarding Ludovic Janvier’s disappearance was officially closed.

Fabrice Ladoux, 12 years old

Fabrice was a well-behaved sixth-grader who lived with his family in Grenoble.
On January 13, 1989, he left for school, located less than a kilometer from his home, after returning for lunch. He was seen walking between 1:20 and 1:30 p.m., and then disappeared. He never arrived at school.
His mother reported him missing when he did not return from class, and a search was immediately launched.
Fabrice’s body was found two days later in a ravine in Quaix-en-Chartreuse, about fifteen kilometers from Grenoble. His body showed signs of physical and sexual assault. A rugby sock was found at the crime scene, but it was never linked to a team.
The investigation began, and a witness claimed to have seen Fabrice in a navy blue car driving toward Quaix-en-Chartreuse. Neither the driver nor the car were ever identified.

While the investigation into Fabrice’s disappearance slowed down, the one into Charazed’s reached a standstill. The case regarding Charazed Bendouiou’s disappearance was dismissed that year, and her family was not notified.

Rachid Bouzian, 8 years old

Rachid was a quiet, shy little boy from Échirolles who loved to play with whatever he found with his friends and pick fruit from the trees.
So it was only natural that he went out on August 3, 1990, to play for a while before dinner.
When he didn’t come back, his family began looking for him and eventually notified the police around 10:30 p.m. Everyone did their best to look for him, but it was already too late.
On August 5, his body was found wrapped in a bedsheet in an underground parking garage in the neighborhood. He had been drugged, raped, and strangled.
Investigators quickly realized that the killer lived in the neighborhood, a place one would have to know very well to realize that the door to that parking garage was broken.
On August 20, the Lyon SRPJ (a bigger team of investigators than the local one), which had taken over the investigation, cordoned off the entire neighborhood and searched over 80 apartments. In one of them, the investigation took a decisive turn. A woman told them that one of her sheets was missing and showed them the matching pillowcase. The patterns were the same as those on the sheet in which little Rachid had been found.
The woman and her husband Karim Katefi, a 26-year-old father, were taken to the police station and questioned. She told investigators that Karim had thoroughly cleaned the apartment and his car in the days following the murder. But nothing is perfect, not even a cleaning job. The investigators re-examined the apartment and found a bloodstained bedspread. They also searched the car, and although it was indeed clean, the trunk had a very suspicious odor.
Confronted with this evidence, Karim confessed and said he acted on impulse. He had run into little Rachid on August 3, invited him up to his apartment, drugged and plied him with alcohol before raping and killing him. He hid the body in the trunk of his car in direct sunlight (which explains the smell), and dropped it off in the underground garage the next day.
Little Rachid Bouzian was buried in a small village in Algeria, near Oran.

Sarah Syad, 6 years old

I’ve already mentioned Sarah in my previous article, since she was Georges Pouille’s first victim. But to summarize, she disappeared on April 16, 1991, after going out to play at a playground near her home in Voreppe. Her body was found the next morning less than a kilometer from her home in a small grove, showing signs of strangulation and sexual assault. A fingerprint was found on a pack of tissues, and biological samples were collected from poor Sarah’s clothing. Unfortunately, these pieces of evidence were difficult to analyze in 1991. Despite this, investigators collected samples from several hundred residents of Voreppe. And that was where the investigation ended at the time.

In 1992, Karim Katefi, the murderer of Rachid Bouzian, was sentenced to life in prison. Investigators did not seek to determine whether he was linked to other crimes in the region, so as far as we know Rachid is his only victim.

A year later, in 1993, the Nathalie Boyer case was closed. However, the investigation was reopened the following year when a man was arrested in Manchester for entering the UK with false documents. A newspaper clipping about Nathalie’s murder was found among his belongings, but ultimately, the lead was abandoned: not only was the newspaper clipping for his sister, who was studying journalism and wanted an example of how to cover a true crime story, but he was also in Britain at the time of the murder. A mere coincidence nearly had dramatic consequences.

The year following this dead end, in 1995, the Janvier family endured a true psychological ordeal. Police officers showed up at their home to arrest Ludovic, who was accused of deserting his military service, which was still mandatory at the time. Ludovic’s parents therefore had to explain to them that Ludovic had not voluntarily deserted his military service, but had been abducted before even learning what military service was.
What I’m about to say may be off-topic, but this debacle is truly symbolic of the paradox of the French bureaucracy: every single step of our lives is recorded on a form somewhere, yet the administration is never aware of anything. And this flaw inflicted yet another wound on the Janvier family. How can you trust in a proper investigation when even the government doesn’t seem to know that your son has gone missing?

Léo Balley, 6 years old

Léo was a very cute little boy who lived with his father, who had been raising him since he was three. His mother, Myriam, lived in Brittany and had no contact with her son. He suffered from her absence, even though his father certainly did his best.
On July 19, 1996, the father went camping with his son and a few friends in the Taillefer Mountains. The group wanted to go see a waterfall about a kilometer from the campsite. Around 5:30 p.m., everyone set off, but after a few steps, Léo said he was tired. So he turned around to go back to the campsite, but never made it there.
His disappearance was reported immediately. The police searched the lake and combed the mountain range, but found no sign of the child.
When investigators questioned passersby, many of them described a suspicious man driving a Citroën BX with a license plate from the Bouches-du-Rhône department (where Marseille is). This man had been seen in the area the day before the disappearance, watching people while hiding behind trash cans.
Investigators followed this lead and summoned nearly 10,000 drivers in an attempt to locate the man, but to no avail. The investigation stalled.

Saïda Berch, 10 years old

Little Saïda is Georges Pouille’s second known victim, so I also discussed her in detail in my previous article.
On November 24, 1996, she disappeared while on her way to the neighborhood gym. Her body was found two days later near a canal. She had been strangled, but her body showed no signs of sexual assault. Her sweater, found tied around her neck, was preserved by investigators, and fingerprints were collected, but this did not immediately advance the investigation, as forensic science was still in its infancy.
Saïda was last seen with a man on a bicycle, so investigators questioned more than 500 people but found no suspect.

In 1997, the investigation into Léo’s disappearance took a new turn. Someone brought a skull to the police that had been found in a bush near the spot where the child had disappeared. Investigators went to the site and found other bones. The skeleton belonged to an adult, who was soon identified: it was the suspicious man witnesses had described at the time of Léo’s disappearance. All that is known about this man is that he worked as a janitor at a middle school in Grenoble. That is all.

A new development emerged in 1997. In connection with the investigation into Fabrice’s murder, a new suspect came to light. He was a violin teacher working at a local school. He was suspected of sexually molesting students and lived 20 minutes from Quaix-en-Chartreuse at the time of the murder. Investigators questioned him and wanted to examine his car from that time, a Citroën 2CV, but the vehicle had been destroyed. The lead was eventually dropped, and the teacher would be convicted a few years later for the rape of a student. The investigation was halted, and the case was dismissed.

Two years later, the investigation into Saïda’s murder was also dismissed.

The fight to reopen the investigations

A shocking revelation

Without knowing what had become of the investigation into her sister Charazed’s disappearance, Ferouz Bendouiou grew up and began conducting her own research. She called forensic institutes and maritime authorities to find out if the body of a young girl had been found, but none had been. She also compiled a list of child disappearances and murders in the region.
In 2003, she responded to a call for witnesses issued by a TV show about disappearances, but she had no official proof that Charazed was missing, only newspaper articles. The show’s journalist, Djami Chene, therefore contacted the authorities, who confirmed the disappearance and informed her that the case had been closed.
Djami Chene then invited Ferouz and a police commissioner onto her show, and that is how Charazed’s older sister learned that the investigation into her little sister’s disappearance officially lasted only two years.

The beginning of a long fight

Ferouz, outraged by the justice system’s inaction, requested the case file and discovered that it contained only 80 official reports. For context, every action taken as part of an investigation is recorded in an official report: interviews, searches, inquiries, etc. For a two-year investigation, 80 official reports is a ridiculously small number.
Her heart filled with indignation and determination, Ferouz contacted a lawyer and managed to get the investigation into Charazed’s disappearance reopened, but it lasted only a few months before the case was closed again. During this brief investigation, the convicted sex offender, Marcel, was once again singled out, but the man had already passed away.
Thus, in 2003, the Charazed Bendouiou case was closed once again. The investigation into the murder of Anissa Ouadi was also officially closed.

The false good news

On February 23, 2004, a man was found wandering in La Mure, in the Isère department. He claimed his name was Léo Balley and said he had been raised by a family that forced him to change his name. Fortunately, investigators verified his identity before taking any action. His DNA did not match Léo’s. His real name was Frédéric Broudin, he was originally from Nanterre (near Paris) and had just served six years in prison in the United States for attempting to impersonate a missing child, Nicholas Barkley. He was a compulsive identity thief with over a hundred stolen identities to his credit. Investigators arrested him, and he was sentenced to two years in prison, including four months without parole, by the Grenoble court in 2005. He was released immediately, having already served more than four months in pretrial detention.

That year, one cell remained empty, and another became vacant. Rachid Bouzian’s murderer, Karim Katefi, died in prison. This case seems definitively closed, so let’s keep hope alive for the others.

Very competent allies

Ferouz Bendouiou decided to consult lawyers specializing in unsolved cases, Didier Seban and Corinne Herrmann. These lawyers are a bit unusual: in addition to their legal work, they conduct full-fledged investigations and are already known for having helped solve the case of the missing women of Yonne and secure the conviction of Émile Louis.
The firm Seban & Associés agreed to help Ferouz and established links between the various disappearances. Ferouz contacted the families of the other missing children, who met for the first time.
Unfortunately, in 2007, Ludovic Janvier’s father died without ever finding answers. According to his daughter Virginie, he had said shortly before his death that Ludovic had been talking to him at night.
While handling formalities following her father’s death, Virginie requested the file regarding Ludovic’s disappearance and learned that the file could not be found. The other families then discovered that numerous sealed documents related to most of the cases had gone missing (how the f-ck do you lose several kilos of files?????). Most of them were recovered once the justice system came under scrutiny, but this did little to appease the anger of the missing children’s loved ones.
It may have been to make people forget this incompetence that the justice system decided to resume the investigations.

The justice systems finally acts

In 2008, the families finally made their voices heard. The “Mineurs 38” (Minors 38) task force, the first of its kind, was created to bring together several investigators from the Grenoble Criminal Investigation Division and analysts from the National Gendarmerie’s Criminal Research Institute to work on the case of the missing children of Isère. The families met with an investigating judge for the first time, even though the first disappearance had occurred 28 years earlier.
By the following year, the task force concluded that a single killer was responsible for the murders of Fabrice and the unidentified child found in 1985, as well as the attempted murder of Grégory.

In 2010, shortly after Jérôme appeared in a news report, Virginie Janvier received a call from a nurse claiming to have seen Ludovic in a hospital near Reims. Unfortunately, the lead turned up nothing.
That same year, a man who had lived in the area at the time was questioned regarding the murder of Fabrice Ladoux, but his DNA exonerated him.
The investigations made little progress after that and were soon disrupted by a major scandal.

A fight for justice, against the justice system?

On May 27, 2010, an article by journalist Elsa Vigoureux appeared in Le Nouvel Obs, revealing that the remains found in 1985, along with 11 other unidentified bodies, had been destroyed on the orders of the Grenoble public prosecutor’s office in 1998. This does not follow standard procedure, since a skeleton is considered a human being and must therefore be buried even if unidentified.
In the face of the scandal, the chief prosecutor, Martine Valdès-Bouloque, asserted that it was biological samples that had been destroyed, not bodies. However, when asked where the skeleton was, she replied that it was in the basement of the courthouse without specifying exactly where. Justice Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie thus ordered an internal investigation, which resulted in no known sanctions, since it could not be proven that bodies—rather than biological samples—had been destroyed, even though the bodies in question remain missing to this day.
At the same time, the Janvier family learned that forensic analyses were conducted on the bones before they disappeared, and that they are not Ludovic’s.

In 2010—a year that must already seem very long for the families of the missing—the prosecutor announced the closure of the “Mineurs 38” unit, which had been unable to make any progress on any of the investigations. She met with the families, but only to deliver the bad news without really letting them speak. However, in the face of a media outcry, she reversed her decision. The team, however, is reduced from 12 to 3 people. Shortly after, she attempted to invoke the statute of limitations for several of the missing children. Fortunately, the families’ lawyers countered this argument by pointing out that without proof of death, the children are considered abducted, and the statute of limitations does not apply. They also managed to get the investigation into the murder of Anissa Ouadi reopened, though it made no further progress after that.

As you know if you’ve read my article on Georges Pouille, the evidence collected at the crime scenes of Sarah and Saïda’s murders was analyzed in 2013, leading to the arrest of their killer.

The “Mineurs 38” unit was permanently disbanded the following year, and the investigations were suspended until a decision by the Court of appeals ordered their reopening in June 2015.

The following year, Georges Pouille was sentenced to life imprisonment and 13 years in prison for the murders of his neighbors’ and friends’ children, Sarah Syad and Saïda Berch.
Despite the reluctance of the justice system, the work of the investigators and the determination of the families helped provide answers to two of the latter. And a few years later, new answers were finally provided.

New revelations

In May 2022, a special judicial unit dedicated to all unsolved criminal cases was (finally) established in Nanterre and resumed investigations into the missing children of Isère.
In 2023, Fabrice’s body was exhumed for analysis, and the site where his body was found was re-examined. It is unclear whether any new evidence was discovered as a result of these examinations.

No news regarding Fabrice, but concerning the murder of Nathalie Boyer, things are finally moving forward. But to explain how, I need to tell you about another victim who seemed to have no connection to the missing children of Isère.

Leïla

Leïla Afif, a Moroccan woman who had come to France to live with her husband, was the mother of five children, whom she did her best to raise.
On May 7, 2000, she left her home in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier to enroll her son in a vocational program and never returned.
Her body was found 4 days later in a canal in La Verpillière. She had been shot in the back of the neck with a .22 long rifle.
No leads were found, and the investigation into her murder was closed three years later, much to the dismay of her children, two of which died without ever knowing the truth.

In 2022, the investigation was handed over to the cold case unit in Nanterre, and the available evidence was analyzed. Male DNA was discovered, and it partially matched that of a man who had been accused and later exonerated in a violence case. However, the man in question was too young to be the culprit, who was therefore one of his relatives.
It didn’t take long for investigators to find their man: Mohammed Chahbar, 62.

At the time of the murder, he lived in Villefontaine and was already known for his disturbing behavior toward women as well as for petty crimes. He knew Leïla and was even present at her funeral. After the murder, he was convicted and imprisoned for the rape of one of his daughters.
Since his release, he has been living in the Grésilles neighborhood of Dijon with his new partner. He spent his days in his white van, which is such a cliché, even for a man like him. On Facebook, he had over 200 connections, all of them dark-haired women with olive skin.

This makes the additional link that investigators manage to establish between Mohammed and Nathalie Boyer—who was his neighbor at the time of her disappearance—less surprising. In November 2024, Mohammed Chahbar is arrested and formally charged on December 2 with the murders of Leïla and Nathalie.
Dounia, Leïla’s eldest daughter, was shocked by the arrest. She had often run into Mohammed when she was a teenager. He had once driven her mother home, so she thought poor Leïla must have gone with him without suspecting anything. She said to the media: “He robbed me of her, of her tenderness, of her advice. We, her children, will never be able to repay her for everything she gave us.”
Nathalie’s family was relieved to finally have a resolution in sight regarding the teenager’s murder. However, the revelations don’t stop there.

Shortly after the arrest, it emerged that Mohammed Chahbar had ties to the Bendouiou family, as he may have been working with Charazed’s father at the time of the girl’s disappearance. In fact, both men were garbage collectors in the Bourgoin-Jallieu area.
Ferouz learned of Mohammed’s arrest through the media and did not immediately tell her elderly parents, to spare them the shock.

These are the latest developments in the case of the missing children of Isère.
Jérôme and Virginie Janvier now live in the Sarthe department with their respective spouses and children.
Grégory was naturally deeply affected by the attack, despite his family’s support. He is now a father and is overprotective of his children. In fact, Jérôme and Virginie are also overprotective of their children, who are, however, understanding.
All the families continue to fight for justice, which I hope will come soon for those who are still waiting for their loved ones to come home.

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