The enigma of the Molene’s cadavers

part two : Ta plage beach boy

Cholera epidemics are now far. A wreck ? “40 years ago, people who lived on the island would have declare the corps, they were used to it.” And most of all “we would have heard about it”. Say people of Quéménès. In the archipelago of Molène, everything goes fast. In winter, there is only a hundred people living there. Years ago, the island was inhabited. The Tassin’s family was there. An original family who decided to leave the continent and establish themselves on the island, like hermits. They started to rent in 1953 until they bought in 1960. They occupied it until 1973, remembers the daughter of the family. Her father is no more and her mother, aged 75, is nervous. “The investigation is suspicious but I trust my parents. We are a well-known family here. It must have had happened during the night, and my parents could not notice anything. Four bodies. Nobody move them so easily. You need to be at least two people. And they knew it well because everywhere is heavy earth and stones. Except here, It’s kind of sand dune. They must have known well the islands around.” Furthermore, the location is invisible from the continent, hidden by the Molène island. In the end of the 50’s, a not very far island from Quéménès, Trielen, was used as an educational centre. A bad memory, hardly told. “Private boarding schools for young people, minors or not, in need of physical and moral reeducation” says historian of the land. In reality a real convict prison hold by a priest of Saint-Brieuc, today deceased. Not really prepared to live on those islands, the young were quickly out of food. Some would have try to escape. Starved, they would have been rescued by the people of Molène who called authorities. The priest was judged in 1959 but released. It is said that nobody wanted to hear this story again. French minister of Justice was there on the island and said that investigation is open. There are no elements anymore but they will find ways to trace the cause of death and dating it. Police did not make any link with disappeared people from the neighbourhood. On the island of Quéménès, the wind and the sea already erased all traces of the discovery.