The procedural act, which brought together investigators and 17 witnesses from the hamlet, took place under a freezing mist. On the other side of the police security cordon, tension and hope run through the village, suspended in the mystery of...

Émile. Early this morning, when he opened ‘Le café du Moulin’, he saw a long column of gendarmerie trucks coming up towards the village. Since then, thick melted snowflakes have begun to streak the landscape of the valley, and no one has come down.