Whereas research expands to seek out Lyhanna, 11 years outdated, lacking within the Gers since Friday, Laurent Nuñez introduced this Wednesday that he was finishing up, with Gérald Darmanin, an administrative investigation into the dealing with of a criticism for rape of a minor filed in opposition to Jérôme B. in August 2025 in opposition to the 41-year-old man suspected of the kidnapping of the little lady.
“I spoke about it with the Minister of Justice and we selected this query (the investigative actions carried out for the reason that submitting of the complaint) to provoke an administrative investigation, which shall be entrusted to the Basic Inspectorate of Justice, to the Basic Inspectorate of the Nationwide Gendarmerie to clearly establish doable dysfunctions,” introduced the Minister of the Inside throughout inquiries to the federal government within the Nationwide Meeting.
A criticism for rape filed on August 22, 2025
“This can be a criticism that dates again to the summer season of 2025. The questions you’re asking your self are very official to know what investigative actions had been undertaken, how lengthy these actions took, who was seized, what motion was taken very concretely,” the Minister of the Inside additionally responded to Liot du Gers MP David Taupiac throughout inquiries to the federal government.
This criticism for “rape of a minor beneath 15 years outdated” was filed on August 22, 2025 on the Plaisance-du-Contact gendarmerie brigade, in Haute-Garonne. Because the assault reported befell in Montestruc-sur-Gers, the village the place Lyhanna’s household resides in Gers, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s workplace transferred the file to the Auch public prosecutor’s workplace, which was solely in a position to transmit the criticism to the Fleurance gendarmerie in January, indicated the Auch prosecutor Clémence Meyer, specifying that “the investigation continues to be ongoing”.
The mom of the lady who filed this criticism indicated on BFM having contacted the investigators a number of instances to learn the way the process was progressing, with out acquiring a response. David Taupiac recalled that the suspect, Jérôme B., had not been heard on these accusations.
“Inappropriate habits in the direction of a highschool pupil”
Moreover, 5 years in the past, Jérôme B. was additionally dismissed from his job on the Lectoure highschool (Gers) “after a disciplinary process following the report inappropriate behavior in the direction of a highschool pupil”, in accordance with the Occitanie area. Answerable for the administration of excessive colleges, the neighborhood specified that the daddy had made replacements as “a flexible upkeep/small upkeep agent” in a number of Gers institutions between September 2018 and February 2021.
For now, the suspect has been indicted and positioned in pre-trial detention for the kidnapping and sequestration of Lyhanna, who has been lacking since Friday. No conviction seems in his legal report, reported the Agen prosecutor, Olivier Naboulet.
