Isère: two cold cases resurface from the past, a Moroccan arrested

A man of Moroccan origin was arrested in Dijon by the police. He is suspected of being involved in two unsolved murder cases: those of Laïla Afif, 40 years old, in 2000, and of Nathalie Boyer, 15 years old, in 1988. These two tragedies, which took place in Isère, present disturbing similarities which alerted investigators at the national cold case center in Nanterre.

The Laïla Afif affair began tragically on May 12, 2000 in Villefontaine, recalls The Parisian. This mother of five children disappeared after leaving her home. His body was found the next day in a canal in La Verpillère, bearing the marks of two 22LR caliber bullets. The investigation, which remained at a standstill for two decades, was relaunched in 2022 thanks to the national jurisdiction for serial and unsolved crimes in Nanterre. State-of-the-art DNA analysis identified three male profiles at the crime scene. One of them led investigators to Mohammed C., a former Renault worker living in Dijon.