the investigation is now “open to the count of kidnapping and sequestration”, announces the public prosecutor

The gendarmes still have no news of the 17-year-old girl who disappeared Monday in Saint-Brice (Mayenne) and the investigation is now “open from the count of kidnapping and forcible confinement”, announced the public prosecutor Céline Maigné, Tuesday, November 9, and no longer on the basis “of a disturbing disappearance”. “The current investigations have only just begun”, she added, and “the common goal of the investigation and justice services is to find this young girl as quickly as possible”.

“This qualification of kidnapping and forcible confinement is punishable by a tort in the event that the perpetrator voluntarily and quickly releases the person retained”, added the prosecutor to the press. “The first elements collected are in the course of exploitation and do not allow to rule out any track, criminal, accidental or fugue “, she said, however, 24 hours after the disappearance of the schoolgirl. The teenager does not present “of notable peculiarity, is perfectly inserted, surrounded” and continues “his studies in a high school in the region”, also explained the public prosecutor.

The teenager left her home at around 4 p.m. on Monday to start jogging as usual. Alerted by the unusually long absence of his daughter, her father went looking for her and did not find her on the route, which triggered the report to the gendarmes. Available research strengths “have been deployed” on a field “difficult because extended” of 190 hectares “wooded and dotted with bodies of water”, said the public prosecutor.