Not an official hearing date but I did read that the families of the missing will be meeting again in September...
http://www.planet.fr/societe-nordah...-de-disparus-doivent-payer.1555257.29336.html
Two families of the missing have recently burst into anger. Through their protests, several questions arise concerning the judicial machine.
Is Nordahl Lelandais involved in the disappearances of Ahmed Hamadou and Jean-Christophe Morin?
Two families of the missing in whose cases the Nordahl Lelandais trail should be studied by the Ariane cell are absolutely furious. The relatives of Jean-Christophe Morin and Ahmed Hamadou, both missing after participating in an electro music festival in Fort Tamié in 2011 and 2012, can no longer hold back their anger. In Le Parisien this weekend, they denounce the slowness of justice which forces them today to pay money to see the investigations relaunched.
In order for the justice system to look again into the disappearance of their relatives, they filed a complaint with the constitution of a civil party on 6 March last at the public prosecutor's office in Chambéry.
As permitted by the procedure, the investigating judge asked them to post a bond or "deposit", the amount of which was fixed according to their income. This sum allows the court to ensure payment of a fine if the complaint turns out to be abusive. Daniel Morin, Jean-Christophe Morin's father does not cool down. "I've been waiting seven years for a real investigation... Years waiting for an answer... And you have to pay to be entitled to justice that has been deficient from beginning to end in our files? That's absurd!" he told Le Parisian.
For her part, Ahmed Hamadou's sister explained that neither she nor her family ever received visits from the gendarmes.
Both families are defended by Master Seban, who recently denounced on RTL Une
a medieval justice.
Bernard Valézy, commissioner and referent of the association Assistance et recherche des personnes disparues (ARPD) in the Lyon region, contacted by Planet, expressed his solidarity with the Morin and Hamadou families.
While he finds it shocking and surprising that the relatives of the disappeared are now being asked for bail, he also considers that the families are not sufficiently informed of what is happening. Several relatives of the disappeared met in Lyon on 27 April to question the judicial authorities. He takes as an example the fact that the authorities did not come to seize Jean-Christophe Morin's phones. "It is disturbing not to do so when an investigation for a disturbing disappearance has been launched, and it is all the more disturbing when we have cases in which lawyers and families have revived justice," according to Bernard Valézy.
Marie-France Fiorello, Adrien Fiorello's mother, who disappeared in August 2013 on his way to university, was personally able to observe a certain difference in treatment. Her son's electronic devices were studied, and it was even shown that his mobile phone pinged in Chambéry, where Nordahl Lelandais lived at the time, but where the student had no known reason to be. "During the ARPD meeting which took place on 1 February with other families of the disappeared, I was able to see for myself: we were one of the few, if not the only family to have been well supported from the beginning. The investigating judge came to the house, explained the procedure and what was going to happen. I can't understand this double standard, my feeling is that in some cases things have been badly done and that we certainly need to better train the authorities who receive complaints," she tells Planet.
After twelve months of investigation, she succeeded, through requests and letters rogatory, in keeping her son's case open. All the evidences are currently being studied again by the Saint-Etienne Judicial Police, who take care of a good communication with her
So how can we explain that for some families, silence is the order of the day? How can it be explained that some investigations are relaunched quickly and others not? For Bernard Valézy, in addition to the differences in each case, this may depend on the jurisdiction.
"Why are procedures faster in one place than another? It is linked to a problem either of justice or of the investigation service," he believes. For its part, the Chambéry public prosecutor explained that the case was under investigation and that the judge managed the case as she saw fit.
Today, the commissioner pleads for a centralization of investigations and a real missing persons department.
As Maître Hermann, partner of Maître Seban, recently assured, French justice has difficulty taking into account the "serial" phenomenon an analysis towards which Bernard Valézy also agrees. "I agree and I add that today a real database of disappearances, worrying or not, would not only allow us to have a statistical measure but also to make comparisons. We have seen it for a long time: in certain departments the number of disappearances is abnormal compared to the basic population," he details while estimating that it is also a problem of means and thus a political issue.
The families of the missing will meet again in September to review the investigations. Marie-France Fiorello has also decided to let the investigators do their work for the time being. "I know we're gonna have to be patient. I'll give them until September. In the meantime, that doesn't stop us from thinking a lot. I was already afraid from the beginning but a little more since the confessions in the Arthur Noyer case and the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Lucie Roux," she confides.
Nordahl Lelandais was indicted in the Arthur Noyer and Maëlys de Araujo cases, for which he pleaded responsiblity for an accident. He has not been implicated in any other case at this time.
BBM
I would sooo like to know if and how the disappearance of Ahmed Hamadou was investigated. Was his recent friend cleared of involvement and how did that happen?
IMHO it would be a risky strategy for a (serial) killer to return to very spot where he committed a murder the year before during the same festival. He couldn't really gamble on two separate jurisdictions either.
I mean, if NL hadn't been caught, would he have returned to the party hall in Pont de Beauvoisin for the next wedding and the next victim?
:thinking: :thinking: