Research is still underway to try to find a 17-year-old girl who disappeared Monday, November 8, in the department of Mayenne. The teenager left for a run at the end of the day near the Bellebranche forest, a wood located in the town of Saint-Brice. Here is what we know about this disappearance, which the Laval prosecutor’s office was seized of.
A phone and headphones found
The teenager had left for a run on Monday near the Bellebranche forest, a wood located in the south of the department. According to his father, thShe left at 4:00 p.m. and had not returned by 7:00 p.m. It was her parents who sounded the alarm, worrying that she would not return.
The high school student is a young firefighter, learned the police-justice service of France Televisions, a source close to the case. According to a relative of the girl, she was using an application to run and published his journey in real time on social networks, reports France Bleu Mayenne. A phone and headphones with traces of blood were found, France Télévisions learned from a source close to the case.
A hundred gendarmes looking for him
The Laval prosecutor’s office, which must communicate in the afternoon, was seized of the case. The search to try to find the jogger resumed Tuesday morning, after an overnight suspension, according to France Bleu Mayenne. Up to 120 gendarmes were mobilized, supported by a helicopter, and they will comb the sector of the Bellebranche forest where the teenager has left to run.
A large perimeter of 3 km around Saint-Brice is cordoned off. Surveillance is maintained in the village where the girl resides. A dog brigade and a river brigade arrived on the spot. The divers will in particular probe a pond and rivers, specifies a journalist from France Bleu Mayenne on the spot.
The search is intensifying with 120 gendarmes mobilized to comb the area, a dog brigade and a river brigade which has just arrived. Divers will notably probe a pond and streams pic.twitter.com/4SX65QfD3S
– France Bleu Mayenne (@bleumayenne) November 9, 2021
No leads ruled out by investigators
The investigation was entrusted last night to the Angers research section and the research brigade of the Château-Gontier-sur Mayenne gendarmerie company. “The first elements collected, which must now be exploited, do not allow any leads to be ruled out”, explains the prosecution in a press release.
A 42-year-old drunk man had called several times last night to inquire. Known to the police, he was arrested and checks are underway to establish or not a link with the disappearance.
“For the sake of the missing girl and her relatives”, people wishing to support the family of “do not circulate in the research area so as not to disturb the investigations”.