Overview

• Ariane Guillot, a 25-year-old teacher from Paris, was fatally stabbed once on April 18, 2001 in Nice’s Parc de la Colline du Château, and her intact wallet led investigators to discount robbery.
• Prosecutor Yves Badorc announced the appeal with a new En quête d’indices video intended to reach people who lived in or visited Nice in 2001.
• The reopened investigation includes new genetic testing, technical examination of the wound, and morphoanalysis of blood traces, with input from OCRVP psychocriminologists.
• The case saw two non-lieux in 2006 and 2009 before a preliminary inquiry was opened on July 18, 2022 after OCRVP flagged it among cold cases.
• In 2024 a person was taken into custody then cleared, and tips from the current appeal will be handled by OCRVP agents and the Nice judicial police.