Four months ago, a young French couple disappeared one morning without a trace. The terrible case keeps France in suspense and in the last few hours the authorities have confirmed the discovery of skeletal remains in a local field.
Leslie Hoorelbeke, 22, and Kevin Trompat, 21, had not seen each other since the early hours of November 26 in Prahecq, a town of 2,000 inhabitants near Niort.
The couple spent the night at a friend’s house, the last to see them. They went to sleep in Prahecq, in a house lent by another friend, who doesn’t live there.
The Gendarmerie deployed a canine team and after weeks they were able to find skeletal remains. Three people were arrested, including the couple’s apparent friend where they allegedly spent the night.
A self-employed house painter and animal lover, Leslie, a slender brown-eyed brunette with a tattoo on her right cheek and piercings, is “a little Zebulon, very sociable and smiling, with phenomenal energy,” he described her. her mother-in-law, Emilie Cardré, and her father, Patrick Hoorelbeke.
Kevin, a tall, thin man with short brown hair and blue eyes, also tattooed, was fond of fishing and hunting and worked in restaurants and markets. They had been together for three weeks before the disappearance and each had “plans” for the future, according to those around them.
Prosecutors have yet to release a possible motive for the couple’s alleged murders. The suspects are being held in custody while the investigation continues.
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Leslie’s relatives don’t believe what happened. “Kidnapping has been our belief from the beginning”, they say. “There has to be a purpose to that, and other than the money, we don’t really see that.”
Karine Prat said her son-in-law had “10,000 euros” with him. She herself had brought him money – the amount varied – on the night of the events in Prahecq, according to her knowledge, to buy a car.
According to her, Kevin had a meeting in the village square in the evening. When the young man returned a few minutes later, she found him distraught and reportedly told her that he had met some suspicious boys in the car. He then accompanied the couple to dinner at a friend’s house.
That friend is just the one who has just been arrested together with two accomplices.
Source: Clarin
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