Overview
- The Nanterre national cold-case unit confirmed it opened a judicial investigation in December 2025 into the disappearance of Didier Seignole.
- Investigators are examining a potential criminal scenario tied to a local dispute and have identified three suspects, including one who is now deceased.
- Lydia Seignole welcomed the renewed action, saying the family never accepted theories of suicide or voluntary disappearance and hopes for answers.
- Seignole, a 29-year-old biologist, vanished on January 27, 1994 after football training, and his car was found the next day near the disused Versannes station.
- The case, long marked by closures and re-openings, was transferred to the Nanterre unit at the Périgueux prosecutor’s request in 2022 and formally taken up in March 2023.