Murder in Montigny: 28 years later, the third suspect in court

By Etienne Balmer | AFP -

After waiting for Patrick Dils, Francis Heaulme their trial and acquitted a third suspect, may Henri LECLAIRE focus of justice Montigny Les Metz 1986 children double murder Tuesday in the examination this year.

This morning the judge heard the former manager of 65 in Metz, opened as part of an investigation in early April after a murder trial bomb the serial killer Cyril Francis Heaulme Beining Rich Beck and Alexander, as from 8 years.

Henri LECLAIRE came chubby little man this morning in court in Metz on foot, accompanied by his lawyer, Thomas A. Hellenbrand. Neither would comment to ten journalists.

Court sources, it is very likely the case, then the new allegations against him.

This is not the first time his name in the folder appears. Retired, single and childless, was admitted to the crimes committed even during their work.

But it was later relieved by investigators to be more attracted to the trail of a young Patrick Dils.

Dils, sentenced to life imprisonment for 16 years, in fact, in 1989, was finally cleared and acquitted in 2002.

As for the serial killer Francis Heaulme, in this case have been indicted, but postponed his trial before the Criminal Court sine die Mosel early April, just because the new allegations against LECLAIRE emerged.

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For this study, which opened in March LECLAIRE received new damning evidence, including one in Metz. Legal Secretary said that the sixties was a trusted him in 2012, the children have been criticized, but denied killing them.

With a new prosecutor confronted LECLAIRE, who appeared as a witness in the trial of the "Backpacker crimes" last spring, was making such statements. However, he said, given the "invented" this story.

Enough to disturb the still found in these revelations and the opening of new research Heaulme LECLAIRE court.

Before an unexpected turn, the name LECLAIRE surfaced as early as 1990. Was Heaulme when Constable Jean-François Abgrall, as the author of a double murder described at this time under the pretext of religion.

After further investigation, Henri LECLAIRE got a release in March 2013, while Francis Heaulme back into the background.

LECLAIRE derives lonely existence. In an interview in late March, the Republican Lorraine said "old and tired" with the hope that "only" in this case "ruined" his life.

The mother of the victim, "is very sad, because reactive memory of that terrible week," said Gabrielle Beining his lawyer on Monday Dominic Boh-Petit.

"What he saw before anything else, a crime scene, crime scene with maybe two attackers 8 year old boy it is," said the lawyer, his client say "wanted accused" Henry LECLAIRE, namely the truth.

The body of Cyril and Alexandre Beck Rich Beining two sons, eight were discovered in Montigny-les-Metz September 28, 1986, the skull crushed on the hillside along the railway line.