Christian Jambert
 Christian Jambert     (policeman) | |
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| Born | November 26 , 1940 |
| Died | August 1997 (Age 56) |
Cause of death | "Multiple gunshot suicide" |
| Nationality | French |
Christian Jambert was a French gendarme (policeman). He had a decisive role in the investigation of the case of the disappeared women from Yonne. He is also known for the disturbing circumstances surrounding his death, from an alleged suicide.
Investigation of the disappeared from Yonne
Seven rapes and murders were committed in Auxerre and the surrounding area between 1977 and 1979, of mildly mentally deficient young women aged 16 to 27 from DDASS, an institution.
As early as 1979, Constable Jambert, who investigated the case of the disappeared from Yonne, had suspected Émile Louis of being behind disappearances. On February 20, 1980, he became in charge of the file.
Émile Louis was charged for the murder of Sylviane Lesage, but the case was dismissed in 1984 despite the relationship he had with the victim, something demonstrated by Constable Jambert. The case of the missing from Yonne is also closed, despite the fact that Constable Jambert had again demonstrated links between Émile Louis and all of the missing.
The same year, Christian Jambert asked the deputy prosecutor of Auxerre, Daniel Stilinovic, for authorization to continue the investigation into the missing persons. His superior, the public prosecutor René Meyer, agrees. Daniel Stilinovic was removed from the executives for gross negligence in this case but was finally cleared and placed on early retirement.
In 1984, Christian Jambert sent a report to the Auxerre public prosecutor's office implicating Émile Louis and a sado-masochistic pimping network in Yonne who exploited the girls of the DDASS.
The public prosecutor René Meyer does not open information for lack of evidence but informally asks the gendarme to continue the investigation. The report is misplaced and will not be found until 1996.
Émile Louis was finally arrested, sentenced on appeal in 2006 in Paris to life imprisonment with 18 years of security and imprisoned until his death in 2013. Christian Jambert's contribution to the arrest of Émile Louis was unanimously recognized by all involved in the case. During the trial of Émile Louis, he was described by the gendarmes as an “outstanding investigator, a professional model and a remarkable personality”.[1]
His death
On August 4, 1997, Jambert is found dead. He allegedly committed suicide with two bullets to the head, two days before his hearing as the main witness in the Émile Louis affair, a case linked to that of the tortured women of Appoigny, the investigation he had dedicated his life to.[2]
The file is closed until Isabelle, the daughter of Christian Jambert, intrigued by the developments in the Émile Louis affair, decides to request a new investigation into the "causes of death" of her father.
In April 2004, the prosecution opens a judicial investigation against persons or persons unknown for assassination on the basis of an initial autopsy report judging the two bullet holes incompatible with suicide. During the autopsy of the remains of Christian Jambert at the Paris Forensic Institute, two holes were found on the gendarme's skull corresponding to the entrances of two projectiles, fired at two perpendicular angles.
In February 2011, a dismissal is made on his death. “Contrary to what the ballistics expert from a first group of experts had asserted, the rifle found near the body, and whose operation had been modified by Christian Jambert so that the weapon could fire in bursts, could very well have been the one who had fired two bullets, the fragments of which had been found in the skull of the former gendarme, ”explains the prosecutor of Auxerre.
The gendarme's family is appealing this ruling, which was confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal in February 2012[3]. The family of Christian Jambert, through his lawyer, is appealing again.
References
- ↑ « Le gendarme Jambert, des "disparues de l'Yonne", s'est bien suicidé » arhcived
- ↑ http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/cette-affaire-a-ete-sabotee-06-02-2002-2002795815.php
- ↑ http://www.bienpublic.com/cote-d-or/2012/02/17/non-lieu-confirme-dans-l-affaire-jambert
