Overview

• Jacqueline Jacob has been called to appear in Dijon on 5 September for potential indictment on criminal association over alleged authorship of a claim letter, a claiming phone call and threats tied to the 1984 case.
• Attorney Frédéric Berna confirmed the summons, reported by L’Est Républicain and relayed by AFP.
• Jacob, an octogenarian relative of the Villemin family, denies any involvement and maintains she did not write the letters or make the call.
• Her defense team says the hearing may be impractical because the same lawyers open the Frédéric Péchier trial on 8 September in the Doubs, a proceeding expected to run about two and a half months.
• She was previously placed under investigation in 2017, a step later annulled for procedural errors, and the killing of four-year-old Grégory Villemin in the Vologne remains unsolved.