Overview
- The re-mise en examen of 81-year-old Jacqueline Jacob was reported Sunday and her lawyers plan to contest that judicial decision before the chambre de l'instruction of the Dijon Court of Appeal later this week.
- Jacob is accused of belonging to the anonymous letter‑writers known as the "corbeaux," a claim investigators partly base on a 2021 Swiss expert report that attributes three 1983 letters to her.
- Her lead lawyer, Me Frédéric Berna, says the probe "is totally irrecoverable," points to lost lung‑water samples from 1984, and will argue the investigation should be stopped or that the alleged facts are prescribed.
- A stylometric counter‑expertise examining spelling and phrasing is under way and will join decades of expert reports that have produced conflicting attributions and no uncontested forensic proof.
- The case’s long history includes a 2017 mise en examen later annulled for procedural defects, the 1985 murder of a suspect, and repeated legal reversals, making the upcoming appeal a key moment for whether the inquiry continues or is shelved.