The friends of Sihem Belouahmia, not found since January 26, testified on the BFMTV antenna this Wednesday, February 1. Both spoke of the disappearance of their friend, assuring that she was kidnapped.
It is a disappearance that worries more and more. Sihem Belouahmia, aged 18, has not given any sign of life since Wednesday January 26, 2023. It was at 11 a.m., in Grand-Combe, a small town north of Alès in the Gard that she was was last seen. Rapidly, An investigation has been opened to learn more about this mysterious disappearance. This Wednesday, February 1, the case took a new turn when the track of a kidnapping was privileged. On the BFMTV antenna a few hours later, her friends gave a moving testimony. “The last contact dates back to Wednesday evening, at 00:20. She didn’t tell us anything in particular“, she began before specifying: “She said “good night, we’ll see you tomorrow in class“. And after nothing, no more messages, no calls, nothing at all“. Subsequently, the two friends drew a portrait of Sihem. “EShe had a lot of ambition, projects. She was funny, very nice, always making jokes, seeing the good in people… She doesn’t deserve that“, they assured then. For the friends of the young woman, this disappearance is serious. “She would never have put herself in such stories and I want to say to all the people who are watching to continue to relay the disappearance even if it lasts for years“, they concluded, upset.
The investigation took a new turn when a man was taken into custody. On the antenna of BFMTV, the two friends of Sihem Belouahmia did not hesitate to speak to him: “We want him to bring her back to us alive and healthy.“, they said. Regarding the suspect, they indicated that their friend used to watch her children. “She was in contact with him often but it wasn’t unhealthy or weird at all. It was really simple“, they assured before adding: “In the village, everyone knows each other. We are all a family and this man was not necessarily frequentable. It was just “hello/goodbye“. Moreover, they specify that Sihem Belouahmia had no relationship with him. “There was no complicity, no connection“, they argue. For these teenage girls, their friend would never have left of her own free will.”I’m with her every day, we shared everything together and I didn’t see anything. That’s what makes us think it’s a kidnapping“, they continue before adding: “It’s not in her habits, she has no bad company, we had plans. She wanted to go to a communication school, she was not at all a bad guy, not at all someone like that“, they concluded.
Sihem Belouahmia: did the main suspect speak?
A week after the disappearance of Sihem Belouahmia, two people were taken into custody on Tuesday, January 31. It is a man, known to justice, and his ex-partner. “We know he was in contact with her not long before she disappeared. So we know he would have an implication“, explained Mourad Battikh, the young woman’s family lawyer. Is this a kidnapping with forcible confinement? A survey forkidnapping and forcible confinement” was thus opened this Wednesday, February 1. “The priority remains the search for the missing person“, affirmed the magistrate, Cécile Gensac before calling “anyone with even minimal information to find Sihem, to contact the police. What happened to the teenager?