Murder of Victorine: a colleague of the suspect describes a sociable...

He connects the cigarettes while walking his dog. It is early this Thursday morning, but Hakim (the first name has been changed) is already talking in front of the bakery with neighbors about the affair that is shaking the Fougères district, in Villefontaine (Isère): Ludovic B., the suspect who confessed the murder of Victorine, is a resident of here.

Hakim lives not far from Place des Fayards, where Ludovic B. lived, placed in police custody Tuesday afternoon. He has known the suspect for a little over a year, but only professionally, he says. Both worked for the same company of delivery drivers. “I smoked a cigarette with him last Saturday while he was walking his pit bull,” recalls Hakim who, with hindsight, had found that Ludovic “was not on his plate, was less confident than habit ”.

“He was dodging the subject a bit”

According to this former colleague, the suspect would have participated in the white march in memory of the 19-year-old young woman, whose body was found bathing in a stream, at the bottom of the Place des Fayards.

The 35-year-old says that that Saturday, the two men discussed the Victorine affair: “He told me: I hope they will find him. But he dodged the subject a bit. “

The colleague describes a young man “sociable, who liked to laugh at work, who enjoyed life and went on vacation”. “It was starting to roll for him, he was happy to be a dad. He asked me lots of questions ”, still astonished this father who says he is“ stunned ”since the arrest of the suspect.