Overview

• The Dijon appeals court’s investigative chamber ordered an “information supplement” to summon 80-year-old Jacqueline Jacob for interrogation ahead of a potential indictment for criminal association.
• Investigators have deployed graphology and stylometry expertises to assign authorship of anonymous 1983 letters to Jacob and are reviewing voice biometrics from calls made by the so-called “corbeau.”
• Jacob and her husband were indicted in 2017 for kidnapping and sequestration leading to death, but those charges were annulled in 2018 due to procedural errors.
• The public prosecutor argued existing material was insufficient to pursue her, yet judges on the chamber of instruction concluded that further questioning was warranted, exposing a split in the Dijon court.
• No interrogation date is expected for several months as Jacob maintains her total innocence and her defense challenges the applicability and timing of the criminal association charge.