Several elements could make it possible to give a new orientation to the investigation, and to sketch a mobile for the murder of Louise, 11, found dead in a wood in Essonne.
The investigation opened by the prosecution after the murder of Louise, an 11-year-old girl found dead in a wood in Epinay-sur-Orge (Essonne) on the night of Friday, February 7 to Saturday February 8 around 2 am continues , and the latest elements now make it possible to imagine a mobile potential. As a reminder, a third person was arrested this Monday, and this man is now the only suspect in the murder of Louise after the raising of police custody for the man from Rouen arrested a few hours before him.
The 23-year-old, the main suspect lives in the same district of Epinay-sur-Orge as Louise’s family.It is likely to correspond to the individual in black jacket and cap filmed by the video surveillance cameras which seems to follow Louise at the end of the college. These images captured by the camera positioned at the entrance to Longjumeau, a town in which little Louise resided, show the little girl to leave André-Maurois college shortly before 2 p.m. on Friday, February 7, 2025, as indicated in the daily columns.
Only a few tens of meters before arriving at the home of his parents, in Longjumeau, a young man appears when she crosses the passage of rue Lavoisier. He wears a black down jacket with a cap screwed on the head, the hood raised. “We see him look around him, as careful,” said a source close to the file with the media. Unfortunately, video surveillance recordings do not give more details to investigators today.
A track takes thickness
A deposition could give them more grain to grind. That of a friend of Louise who also lives in the neighborhood. She claims to have seen Louise head towards the woods of the Templars – where her body was found later – accompanied “by a man in a black down jacket”, she says. If this testimony could make it possible to affirm that the girl had not yet been violated before entering the wood, she says nothing about the continuation of the events.
However, the murderer’s mobile tends to be refined on Tuesday, February 11, notably thanks to the autopsy. In addition, “the photography of the suspect exhumed from the treatment of judicial history (TAJ), a police file, presents comparable features to the face of the man in a dark down jacket”, indicates the Parisian. Louise, 11, died after suffering from a spicy and sharp object. More than a dozen injuries have been reported on her body, especially around the girl’s neck and chest.
As Le Parisien specifies: “No trace of sexual violence has been highlighted and the teenager was not undressed”. His phone was also found right next to his body. Sex and rather villainous mobiles therefore tend to lose in credit, which could give a new orientation to the investigation, without it still allowing to assert with certainty the mobile of the murderer.
Conversely, the track leading to a “free” murder or at least, without a tangible explanation at present, could gain momentum in the coming hours. The murder of Louise could result from a drive, a sadistic behavior, why not linked to psychiatric disorders in the author of the facts. The fact that the latter was able to have a plan in mind, before taking action and killing Louise is still not to be excluded at this stage of the investigation. From now on, the investigations are continuing and DNA analyzes of clothing and under the deceased nails will be carried out.