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. An investigation for “kidnapping and forcible confinement” has been opened. 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.
An investigation for “kidnapping and forcible confinement”
The search to try to find the jogger resumed Tuesday morning, after an overnight suspension, according to France Bleu Mayenne. During a press point organized at the end of the afternoon, the prosecutor of Laval, Céline Maigné indicated that the research was carried out on a ground “difficult because extended”, of 190 hectares, “partially wooded and dotted with bodies of water”.
A first device of twenty gendarmes was deployed last night, supported by a helicopter and two dog teams. The device has increased with 60 soldiers mobilized during the night, then 120 Tuesday morning, and now up to 200 gendarmes, indicated Colonel Pierre-Yves Le Trong, commander of the Mayenne gendarmerie group. Divers will notably probe a pond and streams.
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. First opened for “worrying disappearance”, the investigation is now conducted under the qualification of “kidnapping and forcible confinement”. The prosecutor said Tuesday night would not rule out “no leads, whether criminal, accidental or runaway”.
A 42-year-old man has been taken into police custody. This last had called several times last night while intoxicated to inquire about the disappearance. Known to the police, he was arrested and checks are underway to establish or not a link with the disappearance. “No decision has been taken on a possible release, which is not excluded either”, said the magistrate.
“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”, also reaffirmed the prosecutor.