After their disappearance on January 1, the octogenarian couple has still not given any sign of life. But the debris of a car could well relaunch the investigation, according to the prosecutor of Lille.
Marie-France Dumortier and Richard Di Gennaro have not been found for a month. After spending the New Year with one of Marie-France’s daughters in Mairieux (North), the couple of octogenarians from Roubaix left in their car. But they never reached their home. A month after their disappearance, the Lille prosecutor took stock in an interview with The voice of the Northquoted by our colleagues from France 3. According to her, “all hypotheses are being considered at the moment”. Including that of a bad meeting or an accident. A new clue “important” could well help the investigation: it is a crashed bumper.
It is indeed on the exit ramp of the D649 near the town of Marly, not far from Valenciennes, that the debris was found. Analyzes, they do not match the dark gray C3 of Richard and Marie-France. The magistrate further clarifies that “neither body, nor car, not even a piece of clothing were found”. The phone of the missing has been stuck around for the last timeat 7:09 p.m., after tracing at La Longueville earlier, at 6:47 p.m.
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The prosecutor seems determined to carry out the search. “We will have to continue becausewe’ll have to get thereshe says to The voice of the North. We won’t let go. We will find them and understand what happened.” The couple’s loved ones haven’t given up either. Members of the family of Richard and Marie-France put up wanted notices in the Valenciennes region. “We hope that someone may have seen something, which until today did not speak”confided Pascale, the sister of Marie-France, to the magazine seven to eight on TF1. Tony and François, Richard’s brothers, were reassured by the words of the prosecutor who received them on January 30: “We know that we are not the only ones to do everything so that our file does not fall into oblivion”they said in the columns of The Obs.