The news item caught the attention of a very large number of French people, because of its highlighting by countless celebrities. On August 24, Karine Gélain, a film caster, took to her Instagram account to make a sad revelation: his 18-year-old daughter, Jade, is missing. A call for help since she remains without news. A message relayed by many contacts of this mother in distress, including famous personalities like Pierre Niney or even Helene Sy. This relay then allowed Karine Gélain to find Jade, in shock after having been “taken away by force“. This Friday, September 9, she is the guest of Do not touch My TVto make new revelations.
On Wednesday at 9:38 p.m., Jade, who recently turned 18, announces that she will be going home by text. Then no more news, radio silence. She goes to the Marais, a place she frequents often and where she was that evening. She will survey this place until 4 am, reveals Karine Gélain in TPMP. “She would never miss a day of work“, she claims, and the next morning she goes to her place of work but she is not there. “More sound, more picture“, she declares.”My mum’s instinct tells me there’s a problem, I know it’s serious at that moment“, announces the caster, who then decides to post a message on Instagram, which is taken up by celebrities. She says she has not thought about the scope of her message, she just throws a bottle into the sea because she is “desperate“.
I see my white daughter, dirty, trembling.
The young woman being an adult, the police asked her to wait 48 hours. It was the popularity of social networks that made it possible to find Jade quickly. In the evenings, the mother and friends organize walks in the neighborhood. “I’m not going to lie but right now I have 20,000 messages waiting, I can’t read them all. I see a message that says to me ‘I saw your daughter’, and says to me ‘sorry to do this to you by message but I know it from a sure source your daughter is dead’. I am at home on Thursday evening with a friend, I pass out. You still have to talk about the violence of social networks and the crazy people there“, she explains. The police, 36 quai des orfèvres, call her before the deadline thanks to the mobilization. “I find her in Strasbourg Saint-Denis, without the help of the police. I see my white girl, dehydrated, dirty, shaking, crying, and my daughter I put her in safety, I catch her right away in this hotel I give her to a friend who puts her in safety in the car. And my daughter the only thing she tells me is ‘mom thank you you arrived on time‘, she was not in her normal state, she was taken away“, says Karine Gélain. When Benjamin Castaldi asks her if he was drugged and taken to this place for what he imagines atrocious purposes, she answers: “Sure.” “If I hadn’t made this call for witnesses, I wouldn’t have my daughter with me today.“, she assures. “There is an investigation going onI can’t talk about it“, she concludes. She evokes bruises on the body of her daughter and that the people linked to this case are still outside. “There were seven hours of hearing and confrontation“, she admits and says that the attackers have been identified.