A Police officer stands at the excavation site where the bodies of the
killed French couple were found. The remains were found dumped in a well
to hide their deaths
Zanzibar. They had a dream; a
dream that they would spend their sunset years quietly, in a beach house
in Africa. And French couple Francois Cherer Robert Daniel and Brigette
Mery, both in their 60s, immediately settled for Zanzibar as the place
to retire.
To realise their mission, the couple sold their
sole property, a castle in a village near the city of Mulhouse, close to
the border with Germany. They then travelled over 67000 Kilometres and
arrived in the village of Matemwe on the northeast coast of the spice
island early last year.
What they saw was blissful and immediately fell in
love with the long shoreline with white sandy beaches from Matemwe,
Pwani Mchangani down to Uroa.
It is not for nothing that this shoreline attracts more tourists in the island compared to any other beaches.
The Citizen on Sunday has learnt that the old
couple planned to sink all their savings and the proceeds from the sale
of the castle to toast the beauty of Matemwe by setting up a tourist
hotel.
But as the enthusiastic couple plotted an exciting
new chapter of their lives in Tanzania, little did they know that they
would soon be lying dead, buried deep in a well, in the very dream home.
That Zanzibar dream was brutally cut short in
December after the couple was robbed off their lives by suspects who
were said to be the same people that they relied on to learn the ropes.
The murder shocked the country and attracted
widespread attention, especially after sniffer dogs traced their remains
deep in the well.
Investigations are underway and four suspects, all locals, are in police custody awaiting trial.
The puzzle remains why the couple was killed, amid
undertones of greed to reportedly grab from the French nationals who,
according to sources in France, had flown in with just the fat cheque
worth hundreds of millions of shillings after disposing of all their
possessions there.
Upon arriving in Matemwe, the couple bought a
house from one of the suspects, a one storey bungalow located in an area
resided by the well-to-do. It was barely two hundred metres off the
main road and about 30 metres to the sea.
According to police sources, the house originally belonged to an Italian woman married to one of the suspects.
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