Mulhouse: Anais case reopened 24 years after his death – TF1

The court decided to reopen the investigation into the case Anaïs, this 10 year old girl found dead in 1991 in the Vosges. Following a new request of counsel for the father of the victim Me Thierry Moser, the prosecutor Mulhouse Dominique Alzéari, officially decided to reopen a criminal investigation in late March.
The case was forwarded to the investigating judge handling the case still, 24 years after the discovery of the body of the child on 21 April 1991 behind a retaining wall to the neck of Bussang in the Vosges. “I have new factual elements that I can not reveal not to hinder the progress of investigations,” lawyer Thierry Moser said. “Genetic science has made great progress. This progress may constitute the new element required by law to authorize the reopening,” he added. Francis heaulme, Christian Van Geloven, Michel Fourniret, Jean-Pierre Treiber or even Marc Dutroux: over the investigation, several criminals names appeared in the procedure
Suspicions about the entourage of the victim
Sources close to the case, the case Anaïs already interested for more than a year investigators Mulhouse antenna the Interregional Directorate of Judicial Police (DIPJ) in Strasbourg. Investigators could include interest in the entourage of track close to the victim, long discussed. They could soon look on sealed from the time, and reconsider the matter in light of new evidence.
A Dutch lorry driver, who was serving a sentence of 20 years in prison for murders of three children in Germany and Holland was a time been suspected, having boasted to a fellow prisoner of killing a girl in Mulhouse. After his confession, a new judicial inquiry was opened in 2001, but the suspect could not be heard by the judge handling the case because he had died in prison in September of the same year. Checks had also ruled that it could be the murderer of the little Anaïs.
Anaïs Marcelli, 10, disappeared Jan. 14, 1991 on the way home from school in Mulhouse. She was found dead three months later at the Col de Bussang on the border between the Upper Rhine and the Vosges. The girl had disappeared around 18 hours on the road that separated her school home of his distant relatives of just over 300 m. At that time, significant resources had been set up to try to find the little girl especially battered forest and even the intervention of medium or dowsing. His body was found three months after its missing under a pile of stones by walkers.