Two killed, four trials at the Assizes and still not guilty 28 years after the fact children. When Henry Leclaire has been indicted on Tuesday August 5 return on an investigation that resulted in a judicial shipwreck.
On Sunday, September 28, 1986 in Montigny-lès-Metz, night has already fallen when, at 19:20, the police sergeant on duty at Metz, Roland Hupp, receives a phone call from Dominique Beckrich. Concerned not to see his son back Alexander, 8 years old, she went looking for him and found his little bike and a second, placed at the foot of the slope overlooking the SNCF Venizelos street.Brigadier Hupp climbs. Near the railroad tracks, he discovers two children – Alexander and his friend Cyril Beining – lying lifeless skull smashed with stones. It is 7:50 p.m.. He called for reinforcements. A security perimeter is established. At 8:35 p.m., the medical examiner is there. Without medical thermometer in working condition, it evaluates the touch time of death “in less than three hours.”
A rough survey
investigation therefore start this approximation . It will not be the only one. Initial findings in the headlights firefighters. Four stones stained with blood are entered. But the string found between the legs of a child will not be sealed. “In cases like this, there is so much to do, it is already even though it was picked up,” observes, in an interview with “Nouvel Observateur”, Inspector Bernard Varlet, now retired. “The initial findings were made in a hurry, because families were there and it started to move, the grandfather Beckrich had managed to get on the slopes and he saw the kids,” he says, leaving perceive the shock that prevailed.
Clothes victims will not be further appraised. “It would not bring anything because they were not wearing a trace of blood and at that time we did not have the scientific means to find traces of DNA,” added the inspector.
Called at night, Inspector Varlet named director of investigation, the police arrived at Metz “3 am”. At the time, he was 46 years old, and bottle. It recovers minutes, telegrams and the local newspaper, “The Republican Lorraine” before joining his men at the scene of the double crime. More than a hundred pictures are taken. The police also pick up two tubes of adhesive patch, which will be no fingerprinting. “That was not my role is justified Bernard Varlet. It reported to the magistrate.”
Mireille Maubert, 32, a judge in Metz determined but inexperienced, was given the case two days after the discovery of the body. The inspector Varlet will call “two to three times a day.”
investigators turned
following months, all tracks seem explored. Survey neighborhood hearings in all directions, custody serial … If the inspector Varlet did remember “no pressure”, 80 investigators are on. The evidence is not all benefit from the same attention.
Monday afternoon, the day after the crime, a 15 year old boy, Frederick G, goes to the police with his father. He claims to have seen the day before, to 5:35 p.m., 2 km from the slopes, a man of medium size “20-25years,” the bloody shirt. Contrary to what is said, it will never be contacted. Not that these old ladies who entrust a policeman, upon reconstitution, having noticed “an old man bike” the day of the tragedy. “Hundreds of calls came in, including lots of wacky, he needed to know to sort,” said Varlet. In December, a suspect to confess. And retracts in stride. This is Henri Leclaire, 38, handler Editions Le Lorrain, whose rear of the premises overlooking the street Venizelos. Called as a witness at the retrial of Francis Heaulme for the double murder of Montigny before the Assize Court of Metz, he caused the interruption of the debates and the reopening of the investigation. At the time Henri Leclaire made round the weekend to ensure the cleanliness of the premises of his business. It is exceeded by “kids” playing near dumpsters and spread papers everywhere. But quickly exonerated.His statements were not consistent with findings, and he was not able to get on the slopes, “recalls Bernard Varlet, who led police custody .
“In this case, you are interested in Dils”
judge does not blink. Actually, the investigator Varlet s has forged very early what would become his unwavering conviction. For him, the culprit may be that Patrick Dils, a cook apprentice 16, frail and introverted, who lives with his parents, Venizelos street. Beckrich The neighbors are .
Two days after the crime, already, a person whose Varlet not disclose the identity never told him. “In this case, you are interested in Dils” Second clue: the young, barely returned from a weekend in the countryside, hiding investigators be released a few minutes. He’s ashamed to admit he looked in a trash stamps for his collection.
Strictly exploited against the police-investigation of 2002, all collected time indications prove that children had been killed when Patrick Dils arrives at Montigny-lès-Metz in the car with his family to 6:40 p.m..
April 28 1987 Inspector Patrick Dils site Varlet in custody. The young man denies first, then admit it. Confessions “more than questionable,” according to his lawyer Bertrand Becker, who denounced “the unmanned issues Varlet answers.” That the inspector has always denied and still denies. The rest is history: the apprentice cook, convicted twice, once to life imprisonment for a second time in twenty-five years in prison, was acquitted in 2002 after serving five years in prison
Henri Leclaire steals the show at Francis Heaulme
In 2002, the presence of Francis Heaulme Montigny-lès-Metz 28 September 1986 proved. According to investigators, the double murder carries his “quasi-criminal signature”. But it will wait for 2014 to arrive, on March 31, that the foundations of Metz aborted trial and a final coup de theater.
Nearly twenty-eight years after his detention, Henri Leclaire stole the show in “backpacker crime”, after the outbreak of witnesses last minute. A former railroad claims to have seen the night of the murders, from 17:30 to 18 hours, running along the track, marked with a red spot T-shirt. A law clerk also relates how, there are more than a year, while he was delivering his races, Henri Leclaire seemed to lose its capacity to evoke murders. After a new judicial information, Henri Leclaire was indicted Tuesday, Aug. 5 this murder but left under judicial controlCarolina Brizard and Celine Rastello -. Le Nouvel Observateur
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