Mayenne: investigation for kidnapping and kidnapping after the disappearance of a jogger – lemonde.fr

An investigation for kidnapping and forcible confinement was opened on Tuesday, November 9, after the disappearance on Monday in Mayenne of a young 17-year-old jogger, announced the prosecutor of the Republic of Laval, Céline Maigné. “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, while stressing that“No track” was not to be ruled out twenty-four hours after the disappearance of the schoolgirl.

The young girl, educated in a high school in Sablé-sur-Sarthe (Sarthe), had left her home in Saint-Brice on Monday around 4 p.m. to jog. Her disappearance was reported at 6:40 p.m. by her parents, her father having gone on his daughter’s usual route without being able to find her. “He discovered different effects [lui] belonging “, elements undergoing expertise, specified Mr.^me Maigné, who described the girl as “Perfectly inserted, surrounded, sporty”.

About 200 gendarmes mobilized

A man was taken into police custody on Monday evening while he was intoxicated, “In order to make it possible to clarify his schedule in view of the few inconsistencies during his first statements”, she added, not ruling out her upcoming release. The research is focused on an area of ​​190 hectares, a land “Difficult because extensive and partially wooded, dotted with ponds”, said the magistrate.

After having mobilized around twenty soldiers on Monday early evening with a helicopter and two dog teams, the device increased with around sixty people overnight to reach 120 gendarmes on Tuesday morning, then 200 on Tuesday afternoon. Among the soldiers mobilized are divers and a team on horseback for wooded areas, said Colonel Pierre-Yves Le Trong, head of the Mayenne gendarmerie group. The judicial investigation also mobilizes around forty people, including specialists in criminal analysis and new technologies.

According to data from the Strava application, which tracks the movements of athletes using GPS data, the young woman ran one kilometer on Monday, instead of her usual five-kilometer loop, and her route stops at the crossroads of three country roads. The investigation was entrusted on Monday evening to the Angers research section and the research brigade of the gendarmerie company of Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne, according to the prosecution.