Double murder Montigny: towards a new indictment? – Release

Double murder Montigny: towards a new indictment? – Release

This is a new twist in an old twenty-eight case. Henri Leclaire, a former stevedore 65 whose name had suddenly reappeared in the back of the double murder of Montigny, was indicted Tuesday.

Retired 65 was placed under judicial control with prohibition to meet the protagonists of the case, said Mr. Thomas Hellenbrand, after more than three hours spent with his client before two judges courthouse Metz.

“He categorically denies any involvement in this matter,” , the lawyer said, according to the indictment “will demonstrate definitively that it is harmless in this case. ” “The only problem with this case is its initial confessions” , has he said.

Expenses against him are suddenly burdened after damning new evidence at the trial. justice, exhausted by his mistakes and turnovers in this case outside the norm, now believes that there is against him “serious and corroborating evidence” of killing two boys aged 8 years, Cyril and Alexandre Beining Beckrich.

For the same facts, dating back 28 years, the young Patrick Dils, quickly condemned at the time to life imprisonment, was finally cleared and acquitted in 2002. But the killer serial Francis Heaulme accused remains, despite the indefinite postponement of his trial in early April.

Henri Leclaire, so was again heard Tuesday in Metz by a judge who could put in consideration. The magistrate seeks to establish what was his role Sunday, September 28, 1986, at the top of the railway embankment Montigny where children were found dead, his skull smashed by stones. “I was not there” says Henri Leclaire, although the grandmother of one of the victims ensures having seen shortly before the crime, as well as witness who saw “bloody” along the railroad

The charges against Leclaire are numerous. since the early days of the investigation, custody, the stevedore had confessed, explaining that “without knowing why” , he “took a stone and hit the head of each child.”

Lack of hardware

police at the time, more attracted by the trail of young Patrick Dils, however, had rejected the confession and finally cleared Henri Leclaire. His name reappeared in the early 90s, this time citing the serial killer Francis Heaulme when confessions Constable Jean-François Abgrall, who described it as the author of the double murder.

But it is especially late a resident of Metz testimony, delivered two days before the opening of the trial of Francis Heaulme in March, which led the court to continue again Leclaire. This new witness explained that the sixties had confided to her in 2012. In almost identical to those of his confession 1986 words, he told her to be taken to the children, denying however have killed

Faced with this new accuser, Leclaire acknowledged having made such remarks. But he said in the wake have “invented” this story, his story did not match reality. The judiciary has still found these revelations sufficient to interrupt the trial Heaulme and open a new investigation against Leclaire.

The Judges Metz will now determine the responsibility of both indicted , Heaulme and Leclaire, in a case where the material elements are missing and where the statements of suspects or witnesses have constantly changed. However, if the charges against the two men proved sufficient, they would be referred to the Court of Assizes, best 2016, according to judicial sources