Emile Louis : While New Excavations Are Carried Out in a Wood of the Yonne, the Family Lawyer Reacts
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Emile Louis : While New Excavations Are Carried Out in a Wood of the Yonne, the Family Lawyer Reacts
New excavations started on Monday 26 May in Rouvray, Yonne, to try to find possible traces of victims of Émile Louis, the serial killer who died in 2013 that caused France and Belgium to tremble. The family lawyer spoke Monday 26 May to BFMTV.
After a first operation already carried out in September, a second intervention starts this Monday, May 26, in order to identify new traces of victims of the serial killer.
The excavations resume on Monday in Rouvray, where the skull of a woman who may have been the victim of the "butcher of the Yonne" was found at the end of 2018.
More than 400 gendarmes mobilized to retrace the "cemetery" of Emile Louis: new excavations began on Monday 26 May 2025 in Rouvray, Yonne, to find, 50 years after their disappearance, possible traces of the victims of the serial killer. "The area is dense but not insurmountable", notes Colonel Nicolas Nanni, the boss of the group of the departmental gendarmerie of Yonne, describing to AFP the device put in place in a wooded area of Rouvray, ten …
On 8 July 2023, Emile disappeared while staying with his grandparents. Despite massive searches, no trace was found for months. On 30 March 2024, a walker discovered a skull during a hike close to the village. Analyses confirm that it was the one of Emile. Other bones and personal effects were then found in the same area. The case, already very publicized, then takes a new turn. The investigators continue their investigations, exploring several …
This Monday, the top start of a new raking phase of what is called the "cemetery" of serial killer Émile Louis was launched in the Yonne in Rouvaray. Research aimed at finding the traces of his victims, and could last several weeks.
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