Cold Case. Il y a 25 ans disparaissait Cécile Vallin, l’OCRVP lance un nouvel appel à témoins
Cold case : 25 years ago, Cecile Vallin went missing, the OCRVP launch a call for witness.
« On June 9th 1997 the police made official the disturbing disappeareance of Cécile Vallin. Twenty five years later, day for day, the mystery of the disappeareance of the young Saint-Jeannaise still isn’t solved.
Facts go back precisely to June 8th 1997. Cécile Vallin, 17 years old, who lived with her mother at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, is reported missing. One of the last times she was seen, she was walking along the departemental road on the exit from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, on the way to Chambéry. She was wearing a jean a t-shirt. At 17.37, she makes a call to her father, Jonathan Oliver, who lives in Normandie. It’s the last time that he heard her voice. Her disappaearance was reported by her mother to the gendarmes the next morning, the day that Cécile should have passed her first exams for the baccalauréat.
For several days, the valley was flown over and searched. No result. In 2008, the judge then in charge of the case had the shoulders of the A43 motorway surveyed (itw as being constructed when Cécile went missing) with a radar developped by the criminal research instute of the police to check if a cavity housing a body could be there. No result. Failure also on the trail leading to Michel Fourniret, whose niece lived in the region in 1997. Cécile's DNA was compared to the hundreds of hair elements recovered in the serial killer's van without any matching. »
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« Sunday, June 8th 1997, it’s more than midnight when Maryse Vallin, teacher, her second husband, principal, and two of their kids come back home, in their appartment which is located within the ground of the high school Paul-Héroult. It’s a surprise for the family’s mother, Cécile, who had told her she liked better to stay home to work for her exams rather then going with them to a baptem in the south of France, isn’t there, her bedroom is empty. The family is immediatly worried. Cecile isn’t used to sleepover withtout telling. »
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« She left with her ID and credit card »
Police officers specialized in Cold Cases in charge of the case
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"On the occasion of the missing children’s day (May 25th 2020), the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) launched on their turn a call to witness. The OCRVP was created ten years after Cécile’s disappearence. Some 80 people are working in this omponent of the Sub-Directorate for the Fight against Organized Crime and Financial Delinquency (SDLCODF) of the central direction of the federal police. They are working on sequestrations and kidnapping, child
, sectarian excesses, the discovery of unidentified bodies, the disappearance of minors… They are helped by psychologist from ACP, the psycho-criminologist behavior analysist unity, also called « profilers ».
In december 2019, the OCRVP received an evaluation request of the Cécile Vallin by the instruction judge of Albertville. A team, working full time on minor’s disappearances, went through the 1500 references in the investigation file, all the minutes of the Cécile Vallin affair. It’s in regards to those elements that the OCRVP so decided to launch a call for witness on the occasion of the missing children’s day. « We are working, we are going on. What has to be understood in this case, as complicated as it is, is there are always new elements to explore again, investigations to complete, witness that we have to hear once again, some leads for different investigations to take. We have completely new look on this case. » was explaining Eric Bérot, chief of the OCRVP. « The disappearance of Cécile is a scar, a wound that will never close for as long as I won’t know what has happened to here » emphasizes her father."
If you have any information about the disappearance of Cécile Vallin, you can contact the OCRVP at 01 40 97 80 16
