Gironde: twenty years after the assassination of a farm worker, a septuagenarian placed in police custody

Twenty years after the unsolved assassination of Chantal Seguineau, a wine worker killed in April 2006 near Libourne (Gironde), a septuagenarian was placed in police custody on Tuesday, we learned from the Nanterre public prosecutor's office (Hauts-de-Seine).

The suspect is currently being questioned by the gendarmes of the research section (SR) of Bordeaux, jointly responsible for investigations in this case with the Unresolved Cases Division (Diane) of the national gendarmerie.

Aged 32 at the time of the events, Chantal Seguineau, a wine worker and mother of two children, disappeared on April 28, 2006. Her body, face down, with her hands tied behind her back, was found on May 3, 2006 in Saint-Martin-du-Bois in the undergrowth, a few kilometers from the vineyard where she worked.

Skull smashed at the back

The autopsy revealed that his skull had been smashed in the back with a sharp, blunt object. No trace of sexual violence has been identified. Near the body, two objects were found: a carabiner and a Facom socket, used in the wine industry. Initially, only the victim's DNA is identified on these objects.

According to the Nanterre public prosecutor's office, new genetic expertise subsequently revealed unknown male DNA, recorded in the National Automated Genetic Fingerprint File (FNAEG). On May 5, 2006, a judicial investigation for assassination was opened by the public prosecutor's office in Libourne (Gironde).