Mad with concern following the disappearance of Djeneba, her parents had launched a disappearance alert on December 1, 2020. The little one had in fact remained locked in the toilets of her college, where she was discovered at 3 am.
On the evening of December 1 to 2, 2020, a disappearance alert was launched on social networks to find Djeneba, a 12-year-old student who is autistic. The child had not come home at the end of his classes at the Gisèle Halimi college in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) at 3 p.m., reports FranceBleu. Except that instead of the kidnapping or the dreaded runaway, Djeneba had actually been forgotten in the establishment. According to the news site, Djeneba "remained locked in the toilets of the school establishment until 3 a.m.". She therefore never left her school, contrary to what teachers had said at the time of the parents' alert. The security conditions of the college are also questioning. "We entered the establishment at around 9:30 p.m. in the evening, through a broken college door. It's not normal, where is the security?", protested against France Bleu Paris Sofienne Karroumi, municipal councilor in Aubervilliers who took part in the research. He tells how the child was found in the middle of the night: "The police manage to enter the toilets of the playground and it is there that they find the little girl (…) she was shaking, she was in shock, in her corner, without moving, we tried to reassure her".
Request for explanations
In shock, Sofienne Karroumi asks the departmental council for explanations concerning securing access to the establishment, as well as "creation of a municipal crisis unit, mobilized day and night, to deal with this type of situation". Tuesday, December 1, Djeneba's parents filed a complaint for "negligence". "My daughter went for a bathroom break and got stuck and no one saw her", explains the dad. According to him, it is not "not logical (…) because if an agent came by at this hour, he should have seen my daughter, so did he really come by? That's the question we ask ourselves." The college principal has since called the parents to apologize. The rector of the academy of Créteil, in a tweet of Thursday, December 3, 2020, also reacted. He makes the promise to watch "personally that all the light is shed on this matter".
For his part, the President of the Department, Stéphane Troussel (PS) announces his support for the student and "asks the National Education and the police to shed light on the circumstances which led to the endangerment of this schoolgirl".