00:15, October 30, 2022
“Did my daughter suffer? What were her last words? “ Questions that haunt Dominique Blondiaux since December 31, 2012 and this fateful phone call from a policewoman of the Lille PJ Criminal Squad. Ingrid Marchal’s mother – a 32-year-old bank employee who disappeared overnight from 14 to 15 December 2012 – remembers it very precisely: “Madame Blondiaux? You’re alone ? We found Ingrid … Deceased, in the Deûle. “ His daughter joins the list of “drowned in the Deûle”, this series of victims found in the river that crosses Lille, fueling the psychosis of a “serial drug dealer” at the time. Since then, numerous investigations have concluded that incidents have occurred.
This could have been the case with Ingrid Marchal. But this without taking into account the combativeness of her mother, who lives only for this, “Know the truth”. Twice a day, Dominique Blondiaux goes to the cemetery and promises his daughter to “do everything” to win what she calls. ” last Stand “. For years, this elegant woman with her face creased with fatigue has harassed the investigating judges who managed in her case to have the clothes her daughter wore when she was found dead analyzed. Unanswered, until November 20, 2020, the date on which you receive notice of … destruction of the seals.
“Traces of blood” all over the victim’s jacket and shirt
Would Ingrid’s clothes have been destroyed before they could be analyzed? Dominique Blondiaux, who has a combative despair, then formulates, with his lawyer Margaux Machart, a request for “Faulty functioning of the public justice service”. Until a new turning point. On June 25, 2021, he learns that the seals have finally been found! The destruction order had been signed, but not carried out.
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I lost my daughter a second time
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The judicial investigation, so far closed, could therefore be reopened, and the seals analyzed. The conclusions of the 53-page report, added to the file on 5 October 2021, shock Dominique Blondiaux. Contrary to everything she had been told so far, she discovers that her daughter’s death may not be accidental. Experts have indeed updated “traces of blood” all over the victim’s jacket and shirt. In addition to a male DNA, which does not match those referenced in the National DNA Fingerprint File (FNAEG). “When I received this letter, remembers Dominique Blondiaux, I lost my daughter a second time. They killed her … “ Immediately, think of this married man, with whom Ingrid Marchal had a tumultuous relationship. For lack of judicial truth, she always suspected him.
Supported by Me Machart, the courageous mother asks for further skills, so that the blood traces can be better described, that the male DNA is isolated and that the elements of the hair found are also analyzed. The request is accepted as confirmed by this letter from the investigating judge, who assures it “The order of the commission of additional experts will be notified shortly”. It was May 2022. Since then, Dominique Blondiaux is still waiting …
For Me Machart, this expectation is compared to “Judicial violence”. “On such a delicate issue, the lawyer insists, one would expect treatment to be more diligent. I understand my client has lost faith in justice. “
