Overview
- The Versailles prosecutor’s office, which filed requisitions Friday, asked to move the Boulin dossier to the national cold‑case unit in Nanterre, leaving the investigating judge eight days to one month to decide.
- The PCSNE in Nanterre is a hub for unsolved cases that can deploy genetic tests, advanced digital review using AI‑driven tools, and new medico‑legal assessments.
- A late witness, Élio Darmon, told investigators he overheard talk in 1979 that led police to Henri Geliot and to Jean‑Pierre Maïone‑Libaude, two men linked to party security and crime who are now dead.
- Darmon died on April 1 from cardiac failure after surviving gunfire at his home in August 2025, which now rules out any in‑person confrontation with him.
- The original inquiry called the death a suicide, the family alleges murder, and the transfer could reopen stalled leads even as lost evidence and aging witnesses limit what can still be proved.