The investigation has been open for seventeen years. But a discovery by the gendarmes could well make it take a new turn: a car was recovered from the Thouet in Missé (Deux-Sèvres). It contained bones.
Nothing is certain yet, but it could be the remains of a farmer who disappeared on March 26, 2004, reports Franceinfo. He was then 76 years old. Supposed to meet his friends at Oiron Park, he had never arrived at the meeting point.
Despite the call for witnesses launched by his three brothers, who lived with him on a farm near Saint-Léger-de-Montbrun (Deux-Sèvres), the missing person has never been found. He was pronounced dead on July 14, 2017, thirteen years after the incident.
The gendarmes were alerted by an amateur diver. They pulled the car out of the water and concluded that it was the farmer’s car. It remains to identify the remains.
As Franceinfo indicates, the three brothers are dead and only distant family remains. Even if it is proven that it is indeed his corpse, it will remain for the gendarmes to understand the exact circumstances of the tragedy.