Tiphaine Véron’s family criticizes the Japanese police for the lack of resources they have devoted to the investigations, considering that witnesses have been neglected and that the criminal trail has not been seriously explored.
The investigation into the disappearance of French tourist Tiphaine Véron in Japan in 2018 will be entrusted to the new unsolved crimes center of Nanterre, the family lawyer and the prosecution said on Wednesday.
“The decision to transfer this file to the ‘cold cases’ division has been made”, announced Corinne Hermann, the new lawyer for the Véron family.
Tiphaine Véron disappeared on July 29, 2018 in Nikko, a tourist city in northeastern Japan. The young 36-year-old woman, epileptic, had left her hotel without her suitcase or her passport, to go for a walk.
The investigations carried out on the spot for more than four years by the local police have yielded nothing, no more than the research of the family, who themselves surveyed the area with rescuers and dogs.
“The goal is for a judge to go on the spot”
In France, the investigation opened in Poitiers ended last summer, without the trip of a French magistrate to Japan, which the family had been asking for since the start of the investigation.
“The goal is for a judge to go on the spot” reacted Damien Véron, the brother of the disappeared, for whom the transfer to the pole of Nanterre is “wonderful news”.
In December, Damien Véron went for the sixth time to the Nikko region to meet local police and journalists in the hope of relaunching the investigation on the Japanese side.
While noting “a real good will of the police”, Damien Véron had deplored a “lack of concrete progress” at the end of this trip, during which he had also met the French ambassador.
