Overview

• Two shoes and an old‐style bicycle, likely belonging to a female victim, were uncovered in the latest digs on terrain identified by Émile Louis decades ago.
• Operations that began in late May involve 448 military personnel who are systematically probing increasingly sensitive sectors of the site.
• The campaign, funded at roughly €100,000, follows autumn searches that yielded a dozen objects including a shoe heel, textiles and clothing fragments.
• Investigators aim to locate remains of the five victims who have not yet been found as well as any additional bodies beyond the seven convictions.
• New testimonies have been recorded, including from a witness who discovered a human skull in the area during the 1980s.