Amandine Estrabaud, the condemned man and the eternal mystery

Tkings years of anguish and distress. Three years without a sign of Amandine. Until that day in April 2016 when a suspect was arrested and then imprisoned. For the first time since the disappearance of her daughter, Monique Sire experienced a form of “relief”. It wasn’t going to last. Because what Monique expected more than anything was to know where Amandine was. Despite two trials and an appeal sentence of 30 years in prison, Monique never knew. And soon ten years after the facts, hope no longer seems permitted. It’s a safe bet today that this mother will never know exactly what happened on June 18, 2013 between 3:43 p.m. and 5 p.m.

That day, Amandine leaves the Anne-Veaute high school in Castres where she was an education assistant to go hitchhiking…