The case has never been resolved since 2019. In September, while swimming in Lake Bourget, Julien Morlot, 31, was killed by the propeller of a boat passing by. Four years after the tragedy, we still do not know the perpetrator. However, a call that day raises questions. Monday December 11, 2023 in his show Call for witnesses on M6, Julien Courbet broadcast a telephone exchange that an individual had that day with the Lake Bourget captaincy. A call from a landline. At the end of the line, the person asks: “When are you going to put up signs prohibiting swimmers in the lake?” His interlocutor, the switchboard operator, replies that this has always been authorized, with the wearing of a “red buoy”. and asks him if he had a “issue” with a swimmer – to which the man responds that “Yes”. A solid track, believes Julien Courbet and his team. However, it will not be examined. The reason ? This is a call from a landline, which begins “by a 04”, specifies Lorie Desorgher. The investigators preferred to focus on mobile numbers, but also calls of maximum 3 minutes.
Julien Morlot’s father evokes “specific hypotheses”
According to the Morlot family’s lawyer, the call was made from the Atomic Energy Commission. On a trayCall for witnessesJulien Morlot’s father called on the perpetrator to come forward to help him “to grieve”. “I’m sure there are people who have information that can help us.”, declared Michel Morlot. The man has “made precise hypotheses” on the alleged perpetrator and claims to have passed this information on to the competent authorities. Of the “elements of which we can be certain”assures Michel Morlot. As a reminder, the file has been closed “unknown author”, had indicated the public prosecutor of Chambéry, Pierre-Yves Michau, at Parisian. The trail of a boater is favored but the perpetrator remains unknown to this day.