Roland Giraud: 20 years after the facts, we still do not know precisely what happened to his daughter Géraldine found lifeless with his partner

Sad birthday and sad Valentine’s Day for. For years for the unforgettable Hermann Spontz of the film Grandpa makes resistance (1983), February 14 was synonymous with love and spark plugs with family. This year, he is alone in front of his memoriesthe two women of his life who have left our world. Three weeks ago, his wife since 1966, died at 83in Sens, in this department of Yonne that she loved so much. Actress with the impeccable comic tempo, Maaike was the victim of cancer. She used to tenderly calling Roland “My fiancé and nevertheless husband “. In Paris, they had long lived in separate but close apartments, in the Butte Montmartre district. Every morning, Maaike Jansen received a love letter from Roland.

But twenty-one years ago, the couple faced The worst test that parents can know : the loss of a child. A only girl who is more. The first weekend in November 2004, 36, and his partner Katia Lherbier, 32, rest in the family property of La Postolle, near Sens. After a few hours, as they no longer give a sign of life, their loved ones are worried and signal their disappearance. On the night of December 9 to 10, in Château, a hamlet located near Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, their two bodies are extracted from the sump of Jean-Pierre Treiber, a 41-year-old former fellow. Géraldine lies in underwear. Katia, naked, wrapped in a blanket.

Arrested on November 23 is in possession of the bank cards of the victims he used. Before the police and the investigating judge, the suspect, imprisoned and indicted for “murdered”will always deny the facts. He assures that Géraldine and Katia gave him their bank cards, before organizing their voluntary disappearance. He also claims that he does not know how the bodies were able to find himself in the sump of his garden And puts the investigators on the track of other suspects. However, on the bodies of the victims are discovered of chloropicrine residues, a product used by hunters. “The noose tightens on Mr. Treiber, because he is a hunter and he knows how to use this type of product difficult to use”, declares a lawyer for the opposing party.

Impossible mourning for Roland Giraud

On September 8, 2009, the unthinkable occurred: the one that the press then nicknamed “the man of the woods” escapes from the Auxerre prison where he is held, hidden in a box which is then loaded in in A delivery truck! He benefits from the help of accomplices that house him in apartments. Two months and twelve days later, it is resumed. Before a final stroke of theater. February 20, 2010 at 7.15 am, Jean-Pierre Treiber is found hanged From the Fleury-Mérogis remand center (Essonne), where he was detained in an isolation district since his arrest.

A message is then discovered in its cell: “I’m tired of being taken for an assassin and deprived of those who are dear to me. […] Life did not forgive me for what I regret. Jp”. According to Radio France Info, “J had repeatedly expressed his suicidal intentions. However, it did not have the protective kit implemented last summer by the Ministry of Justice, which notably contains unregar sheets and coverage and single -use paper pajamas to avoid hanging pendants.”

Two months later, April 19, 2010, The case trial Géraldine Giraud-Katia Lherbier only lasts only thirty minutes. Unable to establish a suspect on the accused’s bench, the Yonne assize court ranks the case of the double murder. And, unfortunately, all the families of victims know it: as long as the circumstances of a death are not clearly established, it is Impossible to properly mourn. At the time, contacted by RTL, Roland Giraud and Maaike Jansen had communicated this SMS to him: “The serious negligence, irresponsibility and incompetence that have led to the suicide of Treiber are only a nausea which is added to our endless suffering.“Twenty years later, this nausea is still not dissipated.