With his calm voice, contained emotion, Luc Richard-Bloch admits: “I have some resentment. » With regard to justice, and the police too. To grasp his bitterness, you have to listen to him recount two phone calls, received thirty-five years apart. The first dates from May 5, 1986. Luc Richard-Bloch, 23 at the time, was a biology student. He still remembers the words of his stepfather, Jean-Pierre Bloch. “By telephone, he said to me in a brutal way: “Cécile is no longer.” I think that’s the only thing he said to me. And become. »
“Ten years of refusal of DNA, ten years of denial and ten years of wanderings of certain investigating judges”, overwhelms Luc Richard-Bloch
Luc’s little sister, Cécile Boch, 11, has just been found raped and strangled in the basement of the building where the family lives, in the 19and district of Paris. The second dates back to September 30, 2021. “In the morning, judge Nathalie Turquey called me to tell me that the author had been found and that he had committed suicide. I don’t think she put the two pieces of information in the same sentence. I didn’t even have time for rejoicing. I said to myself: “It’s not possible, they failed all along the line and they missed this last stage.” »
A long impunity
The release, at the beginning of March, of two books on the “Grêlé” affair – The Hunt for Hailstone by Brendan Kemmet and Stéphane Sellami (Robert Laffont); Le Grele. The killer was a cop by Patricia Tourancheau (Seuil) – one of the cold boxes the most famous in France, does not risk alleviating his sufferings and misunderstandings. The journalist Patricia Tourancheau details, in a very documented way, the incredible failures of the investigation which offered a long impunity to the serial killer – at least two other murders and numerous rapes, committed between 1986 and 1994, were formally attributed to him .
What a waste of time and missed opportunities, rehashes Luc Richard-Bloch. For him, the nightmare therefore began one day in the spring of 1986, when he met a young man in the elevator. “He looked relaxed, like he knew the place. And a way to smile, to build confidence. » Luc Richard-Bloch is unaware that this man is going to kill his sister, after a careful location scouting. “Cécile, she was my protegee”, said his big brother. The child of “renewal and remarriage” between Luc’s mother and stepfather. Thirteen years older than her, Luc had taken up playing the transverse flute to accompany his younger sister, a violinist. “Since May 5, 1986, he said, it is as if an arm or a leg had been cut off; I had to live with it. » Keeping in mind the face of the murderer, marked by a few pimples – hence the nickname, the “Pockmarked”. “It was the only thing I had. I had this face, it absolutely had to stay. I don’t remember it completely, but I have a face ghost. »
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