No one has forgotten the court case that shook the small town of Durrenbach, near Strasbourg, in 2017. The murder of a 60-year-old widow who died in abominable suffering.
This Saturday, November 26, TFX is broadcasting a new issue of its flagship magazine, Criminal chronicles, from 9:05 p.m.. Karine Ferri’s teams are plunging back into a sordid murder already five years old that occurred in Alsace. The case in question takes place in the peaceful town of Durrenbach, a commune in the Bas-Rhin region about 44km north of Strasbourg, hitherto best known for its European Night of the Bat. On April 6, 2017, firefighters received a call to deal with the flames consuming the house of Béatrice Bowé, a 60-year-old widow a priori uneventful. On the spot, the soldiers of the fire discovering a macabre spectacle. The body of the owner of the premises lies on the ground, pierced with 36 stab wounds, his hair scalped and the skin of his face cut. A scene that the most sadistic of horror movie directors would not dare to direct. A wind of dread blows from one day to the next on Durrenbach. With her strong character and her involvement in the city’s football club, Béatrice Bowé was loved by everyone.
The outburst of violence suffered by the young retiree quickly prompts the investigators to dismiss the trail of a burglary that would have gone very badly. One certainty though: the aggressor had a grudge against Béatrice Bowé. An Alsatian vendetta directed against the one nicknamed “Mamie Foot”? Without a doubt. Sure, but who? And why ? Eyes will later turn to Aline Arth, a 39-year-old hairdresser found convicted of murdering her stepmother and sentenced to a penalty of jail 18 years old before the Strasbourg Assize Court, a gesture from which the accused defended herself before the judges. At the bar, the witnesses persist and sign: the young woman did indeed savagely murdered Béatrice using a knife, before leaving her lifeless body in a corridor of her house along the road to Woerth , at the exit of Durrenbach.
This child no one talks about in the Béatrice Bowé affair
The suspicious attitude of Aline Arth and the testimony of the last person to have seen the victim alive will encourage the judges to render their verdict. A decision immediately appealed by the defendant’s lawyer, Me Aachour, leading to a second visit to the court of Colmarin October 2021. During this new hearing, the judges finally decide to follow the requisitions of the Advocate General. Aline Arth comes out of court this time with a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of his stepmother, two years longer than at first instance. “I wasn’t planning on building anything lasting with her.“, confided the son of the victim in the columns of Latest News from Alsace, last year. The landscape architect had all the less intention of committing to Aline Arth Béatrice Bowé urged him not to see this young woman anymore divorced and mother of two children. From his relationship with his mother’s murderer would be born, however, a little girl whose father never wanted to hear aboutaccording to DNA.