The former director of the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) claims to know the identity of the killer of little Grégory, found dead in Vologne on October 16, 1984.
An unexpected twist. Nearly 40 years after the events, François Daoust, former director of the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie, who worked on the investigation at the time, revealed that he knew the identity of Grégory Villemin’s killer. As a reminder, the child was found with his hands and feet tied in Vologne on October 16, 1984, seven kilometers from the family home in Lépanges-sur-Vologne. The matter is still not resolved. With this revelation, the Grégory affair could take a new turn.
“One of the protagonists had given all the elements”
This former high-ranking gendarme told the Belgian weekly magazine Ciné-Télé-Revue that he knew the identity of the killer, as well as how the events unfolded, while explaining that he could not say anything without risking legal action for defamation. According to him, a “procedural error” would have resulted in the nullity of the analyzes and conclusive interrogations carried out at the time. “Off the record, we know what happened. Officially, we can’t say it. We can’t report it, at the risk of being sued for defamation. But there was everything” he said. -he blurted.
“The truth is that there were analyses, interrogations which were good and which gave us the answer. But as this was canceled for a procedural error, we can no longer work on these seals and we cannot can no longer re-examine in the same conditions one of the protagonists who had given all the elements of temporality. It happened like this, at such a time, in such a place” he continues. In other words, a person whose identity he wishes to keep quiet would have allowed investigators to resolve the investigation.
One of the “crows” identified in 2023
In 2023, the identity of one of the crows, author of the anonymous letters received by the Villemin family after the death of little Grégory, was identified. The genetic fingerprint recorded on the 1985 mail was compared to data from the National Automated Genetic Fingerprint File (FNAEG). Result: a woman already known to the courts for fraud was detected. She has since admitted to being the author of the letters even though she had nothing to do with the case. Since 2021, experts have always worked “in silence” according to Me Thierry Moser, one of the lawyers of Christine and Jean-Marie Villemin, the little boy’s parents, to try to clarify the gray areas surrounding the murder of their son.