New step in the investigation into the kidnapping and murder of little Jonathan Coulom in April 2004. The gendarmerie cell in charge of the investigation disseminates, via the media, the portrait of the suspect, a 47-year-old German, to different times in the hope that witnesses will make contact.
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The press release from the gendarmerie is succinct:
“As part of the resolution of the murder of little Jonathan COULOM, 10 years old, kidnapped in a summer camp in St-Brévin-les-Pins on April 7, 2004 and discovered in Guérande on May 19, investigators are looking for information on this In this context, between 1990 and 2011, if you saw or think you saw this man, with the imposing stature 1m96, If you have rented or lent him an accommodation and you are able to locate the place or the period , please contact the departments concerned at the following email address or by post to the dedicated post office box. Any information, even trivial, is likely to advance the investigation and help the family of this little boy to discover the truth. “
The following are the addresses at which the investigators can be contacted: [email protected] or to the postal address: Cell Disappearance 44- BP 33284 – 35032 RENNES CEDEX.
As a reminder, the “Jonathan affair” began almost 17 years ago, when in April 2004, this 10-year-old child coming from the Cher with a group for a stay in Saint-Brévin-les-Pins in Loire- Atlantic, had been kidnapped in the building where he slept with the other young people of this sea class. Nobody had heard anything that night and the research carried out the following days had not yielded anything.
Found in a pond in Guérande
It was a little over a month later that his body, which was floating on the surface of a private pond in Guérande, was found and identified.
A special cell worked for years on this case and the lead of a German aggressor had been mentioned because the facts looked like similar cases on which investigators were working on the other side of the Rhine. But this track was abandoned.
