Marion Wagon affair: a new testimony relaunches the investigation, thirty years after her disappearance

The investigation into the disappearance of Marion Wagon, in 1996 in Agen, was relaunched by the recent testimony of a woman claiming to have been followed by a man on the scene the same day, according to the prosecution of the national center dedicated to unsolved crimes. This forty-year-old, interviewed in October by the gendarmes of the Bordeaux research section, was able to describe this possible suspect and the justice system launched a call for witnesses with the hope of identifying him, the same source said on Friday, confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien.

“Until now, we had suspects linked to their criminal records or because they were from the neighborhood. There, we are on the possibility of having a person, a man who was able to follow little girls on November 14, 1996,” indicates the specialized prosecution based in Nanterre. “What interests us is if other women, little girls, young girls, could have been bothered” in the area of ​​​​the disappearance that day.

New DNA samples

Thirty years ago, at lunchtime, Marion Wagon disappeared outside her school in the center of Agen, 400 meters from her home, without leaving a trace. The new witness, aged 43 and who was a schoolgirl at the time, remembers being followed in the street, on the day of the incident, by a man in his thirties, dark-haired, with a dark complexion and wearing "a twisted blue sweater", reports the daily. He then allegedly scared her “very much”, leading her to take refuge with a classmate in a building. Heard the next day as part of the investigation into the disappearance of the little girl, she did not mention this episode.