Between Lyon and Grenoble, in the village of Châteauvilain, a fire broke out on the night of Sunday 26 at 9:00 p.m. Monday November 27, devastating a barn and the adjoining house. Investigators then discovered two bodies “almost completely charred”, according to statements by prosecutor Nathalie Hermitte. After autopsy, the remains could not be identified but the prosecutor indicated that they were "probably those of a man and a woman each presenting gunshot wounds" fire in the skull and for one in the thorax, Didier Nurdin, 58 years old, and Isabelle Nurdin, 52 years old. Exam results have yet to confirm their identity. In the burned house lived a family made up of a couple and their second son, Valentin. The eldest son and his two half-sisters do not live in the region and were probably not present on the night of the tragedy.
The research section of the Grenoble gendarmerie is leading the investigation opened Thursday for “assassination”. First carried out under the control of the Bourgoin-Jallieu public prosecutor's office, the investigation must finally be followed by the Grenoble public prosecutor's office according to information from France 3 Alpes. Priority of the investigation is to find Valentin, to "specify the conditions of occurrence of the death" of the couple and to identify the origin of the fire.
The family, settled in this village of 800 inhabitants for around fifteen years , was "very well integrated" according to the mayor, Daniel Gaude. The father of the family was his former municipal councilor during a previous mandate, in charge of the daycare canteen. "For me it's incomprehensible (…), he confided. à AFP. I knew them well, I can only say good things about them."
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