Summary

It is November 21st, 2001, and Stéphane is in a Swiss holding cell, waiting to speak with the police. Roland Meier, a Swiss police inspector roughly the same age as Stéphane arrives. They speak in German, and both have Alsatian accents. Meier takes Stéphane to an interrogation room, leading him without handcuffs as Stéphane is a nonviolent offender. There, Stéphane repeatedly denies taking the bugle. Meier, who is a marathon runner and mountaineer, is used to playing the long game, and explains to Stéphane how a museum employee identified someone of his description as the thief. The stolen bugle was reported swiftly in local newspapers, telling citizens to be on the lookout for anyone who might fit the thief's description. Then, later, a bystander saw him circling the museum while Anne-Catherine was inside trying to erase Stéphane's...