Agnes le Roux, heiress of the Mediterranean Palace, until her death in October 1977. AFP:
He was a shareholder of one of the most famous casinos in Nice. Agnes Le Roux disappeared at the age of 29 in October 1977. After a 37-year investigation, the main suspect, Maurice Agnelle, was finally sentenced to twenty years in prison in 2014. A look back at the most mysterious of the 20th century’s legal serials.
“Until they find the body…” The sentence is removed during a conversation between a father and his 15-year-old son. We are at the dawn of the 1990s. Agnes Le Roux has been missing for almost thirteen years. Is this a bad joke or has Maurice Agnelette let his darkest secret slip? However, he remained silent for years, beaten in the legal back, first suspected, then acquitted and convicted again for the disappearance of the young woman. The man’s words to his son that day were confusing. The latter will also be silent for a long time about his father’s trust, year after year, trial after trial.
Until 2014, when the criminal court of Ile-et-Villen was the scene of a terrible twist. Thirty-seven years after the disappearance of Agnes Le Roux, Guillaume, the heiress of the great casino in Nice and the lover of Maurice Agnelle, who always defended his father in this…
Source: Le Figaro
