Overview
- Sybille and Damien Véron met the French president’s Asia and justice advisers on March 20 and described a “good dynamic” ahead of Macron’s March 31–April 2 visit to Japan.
- They asked that Japan’s National Police assume control from local Nikko investigators and that the case be treated as a criminal inquiry rather than an accident.
- The family cites mobile phone geolocation that they say contradicts the hotel manager’s claim he saw Tiphaine leave at 10:00 a.m. and they seek his formal questioning.
- Relatives say blood traces found in her hotel room were not analyzed and note the manager, a volunteer police auxiliary who reported her missing, was only heard as a witness.
- France’s Nanterre cold‑case unit has run an open judicial investigation since 2023, and a petition with more than 43,000 signatures helped secure Friday’s Élysée meeting.