Good point from OP.
I can't see any reason to reject giving the police report number apart from it being non-existent. That also leads me to believe that the operators of Instawallet are dishonest,and as such also all other businesses they're associated with will suffer from the same kind of dishonesty. This alone is enough for me not to give them any business.
Therefore, nobody should give them any business at this point. Of course this will not happen, as not everybody do research or care about such things.
What would be possible would be to send a formal letter to the french police in Paris (sent it on paper, snail mail) inquiring about whether they have any cases related to the Instawallet incident (all names and company names should be listed), and perhaps sending it directly to the nearest police department of Pierre Noizat would be a good idea. I am sure someone with good google fu skills can find the nearest police station.
Also calling such a police station and asking could be a good idea, but I think a letter could be the best thing. It could be weeks to get an answer though, if there ever will be an answer.
Since Pierre Noizat aka Boussac doesn't address giving out the police report number, although he stated such an investigation exists, and he also stated there are independent investigators looking into the case, and he even stated that bitcoin-central is being audited by a professional security company. I think all of it is just a bunch of bullshit. A legit company would have no problem saying that a certain company is doing the audits, and then giving them permission to confirm this if asked by a customer.
In essence this is what he's doing:
Unless somebody seek him out in person and ask him some hard questions, we will never have the answers. He had repeatedly proven that he is not a professional businessman. A professional businessman would've ignored the personal attacks and the less civilized attacks, and adressed all issues that he could in a professional manner, and if there was some issues that he could not address he would've explained calmly that unfortunately he can not adress these issues in public because [insert reason].
We don't know who or how much was stored at instawallet, but if there was some sharks storing a lot of money there, I for one would not sleep well at night knowing that my name is out there in the wild and I owe a lot of people money.
The most serious part is the fact that nobody knows how many coins were stolen, if any. He has not made a concise statement in regards to this, and currently all coins are in limbo.
Things that should've been answered are:
1. How many coins were stolen, and how much of the total percentage is this ?
2. Who is managing the reclaim process, is this the same person(s) that are evading and lying on this forum. How can we be sure that this process is just. For example, knowingly wiping out 40% of all funded wallets from the reclaim process, would still give coins back to 60% of the holders, and when complaints from the remaining 40% surface, Instawallet reps could just say they're lying or making up fake wallets. As long as the reclaim process is not done by a trusted party, we have no idea how this is going to end, or if it will be just at all.
3. Pierre Noizat seems to be a person of 40+ of age ? He doesn't handle the whole mess as a professional businessman, and I have no reason to believe this will change at any point soon. He takes stuff very personal, and his response to anyone he deem to do a personal attack is to stop communicating with that person. For instance when I said bitcoin-central should do a security audit by a professional firm, he called me out as condecending, instead of adressing the issue at hand. Personally I would thank anyone for their interest in the company and pointing to the fact that such matters are attended to, and give the details that I saw necessary.
Sure we could all sugar coat our words every time we communicate with someone, but the business world is not a candy store.
