the thriller of the Gondrexange trunk | EUROtoday

“VYou can’t miss it, it’s all gray and there are seals on it,” informs us the proprietor of the L’Ami du ache bakery, the one enterprise working in Gondrexange. Surrounded by forest, ponds and the Marne-au-Rhin canal, this small village in Moselle (500 inhabitants) is positioned lower than ten kilometers from Sarrebourg, a city well-known for having had as mayor a sure Pierre Messmer, from 1971 to 1989.

Here we’re at 90, rue de la Madeleine, within the heart of the village. A big pink sticker with the “National Gendarmerie” brand successfully bars the door of the home, which is twinned with one other and whose mouse-grey facade appears to have been not too long ago renovated. The phrase “homicide” was scrawled on the signal hooked up to the seals. A garland to which…