“My life stopped”: A year after jogger’s murder in Essonne, widow confronts investigators’ silence

A year after Raphaël Maciel was shot in the back while jogging on a path in Bièvres, Essonne, the investigation remains shrouded in silence. His widow is still asking the same questions: who wanted the 37-year-old father dead, and why?

Maciel, a digital project manager, had joined a small Paris company specializing in web development and custom software in 2019. On Sept. 5 last year, someone killed him during his run on a cycle path. The article describes him as a family man with no apparent history of trouble.

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I believe it has less to do with the victim’s profile, the sensitivity of the case or the prosecutor than with the investigation itself, which is very difficult to conduct given the small amount of information available to investigators.

The case stands out because almost nothing has emerged publicly. Grégoire Dulin, the public prosecutor in Évry, declined to comment, citing the secrecy of the investigation. French criminal prosecutors can communicate under Article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, but Dulin has not used that power in this case.

A local police source offered a possible explanation, saying the silence appeared to reflect the investigation itself rather than the victim’s profile, the sensitivity of the case or the prosecutor. “I believe it has less to do with the victim’s profile, the sensitivity of the case or the prosecutor than with the investigation itself, which is very difficult to conduct given the small amount of information available to investigators,” the source said. “It is certainly a homicide of the kind we sometimes handle, but there are very few clues.”

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It is certainly a homicide of the kind we sometimes handle, but there are very few clues.