A hopeful development of a grisly murder occurred today in France. Earlier this week, the body of Valentin Cremault, an 11 year-old boy, was found in a small street in Lagnieu, a small town between Lyon and the Swiss-French border. Valentin (as he is being affectionately called by the French) was stabbed around 40 times with a knife. His body was found Thursday night nearby his bicycle and it is said that his blood has stained several streets of the town.
Needless to say, the murder shocked everybody in France and developments have been making the front page for several days now. Detectives were closely following any trail left by DNA. Yesterday, a DNA sample produced no results from the national database, only the fact that the murderer was male.
A police sketch of the couple arrested, Noëlla Hugo, 48, and Stéphane Moitoiret, 39. They were found hitch hiking on the side of a road.
However, a positive turn of events when police were able to pin down a suspect who lived nearby the area, but had recently dissappeared. The couple was found on August 3rd after being reported by drivers who reported the couple trying to hitchhike. They have been described by police as a couple of “dropouts”.
Police have stated that the male is the number one suspect at moment since his DNA closely matches DNA found on Valentin’s clothes.
Tomorrow (but today in France— damn time differences!), Minister of Justice Rachida Dati, whom I’ve blogged about before, is going to Lagnieu to give her respects to the family of the victim.
I’m sorry for the descriptive language, but it’s all to show you how horrifying this murder is. It’s not right for an 11 year-old to lose his life like that.
Désolé si t’es déprimé(e)…
Thank you for your coverage. I heard about this horrible crime here in Spain. Please keep covering this.