Arrest warrants in the case of little Jonathan, a boy of the Cher killed in 2004 – Orval (18200)

A breakthrough came in the case of the murder of the little Jonathan Coulom, from Orval, near Saint-Amand-Montrond, and found dead in May 2004 near Guérande (Loire-Atlantique).
The parquet floor of Nantes has confirmed this Wednesday, October 9 at Republican Berry an information from the daily Ouest-France, according to which a European arrest warrant had been issued, by the investigating judge in charge of the case, against Martin Ney, a German who became the main suspect in the case of the disappearance of Jonathan Coulom .
This ten-year-old boy, residing in Orval, had disappeared during the night of 6 to 7 April 2004 from a summer camp in Saint-Brévin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique), where he was staying in the sea. term of intensive research, his body was found a month later, in a pond near Guérande, about thirty kilometers.

Three victims in Germany

Martin Ney, 47, is a German national and is detained in his country. He confessed to the murder and rape of three children, aged eight to 13 years. Facts he says he committed between 1992 and 2001 in northern Germany. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012.
Each time, Martin Ney said he abducted a child – still a boy – in the vicinity of a holiday center. The German had, at one time, been on the list of suspects of the boy's murder. Without result, but the track had never really been let go.
according to West France, This track was reactivated in 2017, by confessions allegedly made by the German suspect to a fellow prisoner. Martin Ney would have evoked on the death of Jonathan very precise details, never made public by the investigators. This fellow prisoner had brought everything back.
The magistrate therefore hopes that the suspect, presumed innocent, can be handed over to France by the German courts, with a view to indictment.
In April 2018, a call for witnesses was launched by Disappearing Investigation Unit 44, investigating Jonathan's abduction and death. It aimed in particular to look for a bag which would have been lost in France by the suspect.