Murder of Leïla in 2000: her daughter’s emotion after the suspect’s arrest

Dounia, Leïla’s daughter, expresses her feelings after the arrest and indictment for homicide of the Moroccan retiree suspected of the murder of her mother found dead on May 12, 2000, near a canal in Verpillière (Isère), killed coldly shot in the back of the head, and that of a 15-year-old schoolgirl, found in August 1988 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.

” Finally ! Finally. It’s the first word that came to me when we learned of the arrest of my mother’s alleged murderer,” breathes Dounia, 46, near the Parisian. She believes that “this heaviness that was in our hearts for so long has instantly gone, we will finally have an answer. » When the information broke, Dounia said she didn’t even try to find out who it was.
“The only thing that mattered to me was that justice could be done. After 24 years of fight, 24 years of tears, 24 years of hope, that’s it,” she adds. The one whose brother and sister died too soon to know the moment of justice, hopes to have an answer before their death.