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Less than 3% of crimes solved

Florence's mother, killed Guatemala, wants the truth.

almost a year ago, Florence Denèfle, an English teacher in the capital of Guatemala, was found murdered. Since then, investigations have yielded nothing. His family has filed a complaint in France and offers a reward to revive the investigation.

Her struggle is that of a mother who fights for the truth and make her daughter's dignity. Edwige Laigle-Denèfle still remembers very well what the evening March 25, 2010, when the police came knocking at the door of his home in Amelie-les-Bains (Pyrénées-Orientales) to announce the "horrible news" . His daughter Florence, 33, professor of Education detached position for three years at the French Lycée in Ciudad Guatemala, has been found dead, 17 km from his home on the edge of a country road. begins a real battle for Edwin Laigle-Denèfle, which has very little information on the disappearance of her daughter. "I was just that she had been suffocated" , "she recalls. "Nobody in Guatemala not contacted us. So we decided to call ourselves the Embassy of France on the spot. Neither the Foreign Ministry nor the Elysee, where even the Ministry of Education has sought to reach us. Nobody told us anything, we had the feeling of being abandoned "," she relates.

A key witness disappears

In desperation, the mother of Florence decided to write to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the time, Bernard Kouchner. "He said that France would do everything to advance the investigation. He also called himself the ambassador of Guatemala to France. " But so far, the investigation stalled. And for good reason: the death of Florence took place on the eve of Holy Week in Guatemala. For more than a week, local investigators have not worked on the death of the teacher. Yet it is well known that the days of a murder or a murder are the most critical.

One witness, thus, could disappear. A friend of Florence, mysteriously vanished the day after her disappearance. "Has he gone along with it or did he run away because he was involved in his death? Is there a witness or suspect? ", asks Edwin Laigle-Denèfle. Since then, an arrest warrant was issued against him. In vain. Eleven months after the incident, the family of the teacher still has very few new elements that could inform the investigation. "We still do not know why it happened. We just learned that she had likely been kidnapped her, probably at his home. We found the keys to his house next to his computer. She would never be part of itself without them, and especially without having closed the door. I also recently learned that the son's phone had been cut, which may suggest that it was all organized " says the mother of Florence.

very corrupt local police

Given the weakness of the Guatemalan investigators, Edwige Laigle-Denèfle decided to act. "Guatemala is a country quite unique: there are 17 murders a day in a country with 12 million people. Less than 3% of these crimes are solved. They have no technical means, they are completely overwhelmed. Guatemalan police also extremely corrupt "," she laments. The family decided to file a complaint against X for murder in France to revive the investigation. Two French investigating judges have been appointed to expedite. In parallel, the family moved to Guatemala to offer a reward for any information concerning this matter. In the process, Edwige Laigle-Denèfle was received by Foreign Minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, who promised him all his help. "Until she gets me and I lodged a complaint, I felt that France had completely forgotten. And remember that way is like killing a second time, it's horrible. To his memory, I have no right to give up. I fight to restore dignity to my daughter as a victim. "

Flora Galaud Le Figaro