COLD CASES: THE TRUTH AT ANY PRICE | TF1 | Reportages

For the last nine years a mystery has been hovering over Barcelona: the one surrounding the disappearance of a young, 20-year-old Breton, Romain Lannuzel. The Erasmus student was supposed to spend a year in the Catalan capital. However, on November 13 2007, Romain disappears without any reason. Romain was a well-adapted boy. All enquires carried out by the Spanish police led nowhere. It’s as if the earth opened and swallowed him up,” said one officer. We have followed the struggle by Mireille, his mother, who is doing everything to find out the truth. Consulting a medium, putting up posters… Recently, she also hired a detective, who has discovered a lead.And another mystery has haunted the tiny village of Lisle in the Dordogne for the last 18 years. The murder of a 46-year-old woman. It happened at the end of August 1998. The gendarmes soon believe they have the guilty party. Pascal Labarre, 33, a council employee. According to the gendarmes, Labarre was the victim’s lover and could not bear her ending their relationship. He is said to have killed her in a fit of rage. In custody, Pascal Labarre confesses. However, one month later, he retracts and insists he had nothing to do with it. In 2002, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Then acquitted on appeal six months later. If it isn’t Pascal Labarre then who is the killer? 18 years later, with the case in limbo, a detective has found witnesses who may be able to reopen the investigation.”