Mayenne: investigation for kidnapping and sequestration after disappearance of a joggeuse

The 17-year-old high school student had left the family home, in Saint-Brice, Monday around 4 pm, to make his usual jog. Its disappearance was reported at 6:40 pm, while his father found effects belonging to him along his journey.

Le Monde with AFP

An investigation for kidnapping and sequestration was opened on Tuesday, November 9, after the disappearance on Monday in Mayenne of a 17-year-old joggeuse, announced the prosecutor of the Republic of Laval, Céline Maigné. “This qualification for kidnapping and sequestration is punished with a delicate sentence in the event that the author of the facts voluntarily and quickly releases the retained person,” added the prosecutor before the press, while stressing that “no track “Was not to be excavated twenty-four hours after the disappearance of high school girl.

The girl, enrolled in a high school of Sablé-sur-Sarthe (Sarthe), was part of her home, in Saint-Brice, Monday around 16 am to jog. His disappearance was reported at 6:40 pm by his parents, his father having returned to his daughter’s usual path without being able to find her. “He discovered various effects [him] belonging”, in the course of expertise, “said M me mate, who described the girl as” perfectly inserted, surrounded, sporty “.

about 200 gendarmes mobilized

A man was placed in custody on Monday night, while he was intoxicated, “in order to clarify his schedule in view of the few inconsistencies in his first statements,” “She added, do not exclude his remit forward. The research focuses on an area of ​​190 hectares, a “difficult because extended and partially wooded land, dotted with ponds,” said the magistrate.

After mobilizing twenty military Monday in the early evening with a helicopter and two cynophilic teams, the device is mounted with about sixty people at night to reach 120 gendarmes Tuesday morning, then 200 Tuesday afternoon . Among the military mobilized are divers and a horse team for the wooded areas, “said Colonel Pierre-Yves Le Trong, head of the Mayenne gendarmerie group. The judicial inquiry also mobilizes forty people including criminal analysis specialists and new technologies.

From the Strava application, which follows athletes’ movements with GPS data, the young woman ran one kilometer Monday, instead of her usual five-kilometer loop, and his journey stops At the crossroads of three country roads. The survey was entrusted on Monday night to the Angers Research Section and the Research Brigade of the Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne Gendarmerie Company, according to the floor.

/Media reports.