Disappearance of Mathis: twist in the case, his father suspected of the murder

After the disappearance of Mathis in 2011, Sylvain Jouanneau wasé indicted for the murder of his son. Investigators discovered the boy's DNA in his car.

Thirteen years later, the Mathis Jouanneau affair has reached a new turning point. This little boy then became older. of 8 years old had beené removed by his father Sylvain, in September 2011, à the day before the start of the school year. If the father was condemned in 2015 à a sentence of twenty years of criminal imprisonment for this kidnapping, the trial did not allow us to know what he had done with the little boy ;we. In his defense, he will never stop saying that he confided in her the child & a third. During the trial, Sylvain Jouanneau's mother encouraged her son to take action. talk to help find Mathis. Sylvain Jouanneau has éandé indicted, this time for the murder of his child, by the Caen Court of Appeal, on April 24.

An indictment for homicide which follows à the discovery of new elements and additional investigations. Traces of DNA from the little boy were found. revealed in the trunk of Sylvain Jouanneau's car, the car he had used to go to Paris. Lahonce in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, in September 2011, shortly after the kidnapping. The authors also noted inconsistencies in Sylvain Jouanneau's schedule at the time of the boy's disappearance.

A new audition

"I have always refused toé à until this matter comes to an end and I have, since 2016, made requests for important investigative acts which have ;té carried out. The DNA analyzes arrived a year and a half ago, and by the time we compared them to the the IRCGN (Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie)…", indicated à AFP Me Aline Lebret, lawyer for the mother of the young boy.

Placé in provisional detention after this indictment, Sylvain Jouanneau appealed this decision. This Tuesday, May 7, the investigating chamber of the Caen Court of Appeal decided to keep him in detention. The instruction will now continue. Sylvain Jouanneau, currently incarcerated; in Dordogne, should be &agrav; heard again by the investigators.