The ax fell. Young Sihem Belouahmia was found dead last night after a week of intensive searches.
Terrible news on this Thursday, February 2, 2023… All the hopes of the family of the young Sihem Belouahmia just went up in smoke. As revealed The Parisianthe body of the 18-year-old schoolgirl was found lifeless on the night of Wednesday February 1 to Thursday 2, in a forest in the Gard. The main suspect, a 39-year-old man taken into custody on Tuesday, January 31, is confessed between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Following the “disturbing disappearance” of Sihem and concordant testimonies, the public prosecutor of Alès, François Schneider, had finally opened a procedure for kidnapping and sequestration, which made it possible to deploy additional means of investigation.
Always according to The Parisian, the investigation had progressed quickly, since Mahfoud H., was quickly arrested by the gendarmes of the research section of Nîmes. He was close to the victim. Several searches took place at his home and his ex-companion had also been taken into custody. Mahfoud H., who therefore confessed to killing young Sihemwas already known to the police since in 2015, he had been sentenced to 12 years in prisonwith two other accomplices, for a series of organized gang robberies and armed robberies in the Alès region in 2012. He was also to appear this Wednesday, February 1 before the Gard Assize Court for a case home confinement dating back to 2011.
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A terrible drama
New drama in France with the death of this young teenager without history. Sihem Belouahmia had not given any sign of life for a week, after leaving around 11:10 p.m. on Wednesday January 25, the apartment of her 95-year-old grandmother, Fatima. Since that night, Sihem disappeared and his phone never again answered multiple calls from loved ones and family. It was Sihem’s father who went to report the disappearance of his only child, born in a family of four children, Thursday, January 26, at the police station in Alès. The Gard gendarmerie then began investigations for “worrying disappearance”, then for kidnapping and kidnapping.