Case Benitez in Perpignan: family tries to revive the survey – Le Figaro

The bodies of Marie-Josée Benitez and her daughter Allison, disappeared July 14, 2013, have still not been found. Child-friendly, all tracks have not yet been explored.

It is exactly two years since Marie-Josée Benitez and her daughter Allison disappeared in Perpignan. Two years that their bodies have still not been found. And that the investigation stalled. Asked by La Dépêche du Midi , the brother of Marie-Josée, Eric Barbet, request that the investigations resumed. “In January, we sent queries through the voice of our lawyer Maître Philippe Capsié and we still have no news,” he says.

The mother, aged 53 and his 19 year old daughter have been heard from since 14 July 2013. Suspicion quickly on the father, Francisco Benitez. The Legionnaires had alerted police more than eight days after the disappearance of the two women. Questioned by police, Chief Warrant Officer in charge of recruitment at the Joffre barracks Perpignan maintains that they are parties to Toulouse and there is nothing to do with the disappearance.

A search is conducted in the family apartment. Significant traces of blood were left in the garage. Research shows that there was no phone call on portable two women or movements on their bank accounts from their supposed departure. Francisco Benitez gradually becomes the prime suspect in this highly publicized case. But the police do not have time to question him again. A few days later, on August 5, at dawn, he put his own life and leaves behind a letter and a video in which he denies any involvement.

Excavations in the basement

His suicide reinforces the belief relatives of Marie-Josée Benitez and Allison that the legionary is the cause of their disappearance. In late August, DNA traces of two women were discovered in a washing machine and a freezer that Francisco Benitez had carried from home to the barracks. For the prosecution of Perpignan, it is no more but a disappearance of assassinations. In September, the judicial police, backed by gendarmes, also organize excavations in the grounds of the treatment plant in Port Leucate (Aude) and the surrounding pine forest. This research had been decided after the analysis of the mobile military that triggered the nearby bridge between terminal 14 and 22 July, sometimes in the middle of the night. But these studies do not give anything

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Allison Benitez / Instagram

Two years after the disappearance of the two women, the family of Marie-José, civil party, is concerned the trampling investigation, especially since the investigative judges have changed along the way. For the brother of Marie-José, all tracks have not yet been explored. “We hope that such research be conducted in the basement of the building (…) where the family lived, he explains the regional daily. You can find this basement through hatches that are in the garage Francisco Benitez. Strangely, I feel that they have not yet been visited by the investigators. It is a perfect place to hide the body or other items that can be linked to the double disappearance “.

Call for testimonies

Eric Barbet is based on the testimony of Maria Teresa, mistress of Francisco Benitez who came to stay in the apartment a few days after July 14. “She clearly said that she felt bad smells in the bathroom. But this bathroom opens onto dry column that joins the all-sewerage … And if they were there? “He asked the micro France Blue, convinced that his sister and niece were killed in the garage.

He will also launch a call for evidence. “Given the violence of what happened on July 14 in the afternoon in the apartment, it seems impossible that neighbors, residents of the street did not hear anything, they n ‘cries have not seen Allison in particular “. It also advocates for the reconciliation of two cases: that of the double disappearance and that of Simone Oliveira, the mistress of Francisco Benitez, who mysteriously disappeared in Nimes in 2004. “We will, we will not relinquish anything. It will last long it will last but we will find them. “