Twenty-four hours after her disappearance in Mayenne, the 17-year-old jogger was found alive Tuesday evening in a restaurant in Sablé-sur-Sarthe about ten kilometers from her home. The man who had been arrested and taken into custody was released without prosecution.
The man placed in police custody on Monday evening after the disappearance of the 17-year-old jogger in Mayenne, found alive on Tuesday evening, has been exonerated, the Laval prosecutor announced on Wednesday. “As part of the investigation into the disappearance of a young jogger in Saint-Brice, the police custody measure taken on Monday, November 8 ended on Tuesday. “The investigations carried out made it possible to clarify the elements which motivated this measure and to rule out the involvement of the person in question”, declared in a press release the prosecutor of the Republic of Laval, Céline Maigné.
The schoolgirl is hospitalized
This man had been placed in police custody while he was intoxicated “in order to clarify his schedule in view of the few inconsistencies during his first statements”, Mrs. Maigné said on Tuesday. According to several media, he had called the gendarmes several times to try to obtain information on the disappearance of the young girl. The prosecutor did not wish to comment on these elements.
The young high school student was found alive Tuesday evening in a restaurant in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, about ten kilometers from the area where she had gone jogging. According to the mayor of the city Nicolas Leudière, she was “extremely shocked”. She was hospitalized. “The investigators are continuing their investigations into the circumstances of the disappearance, helped by the statements of the young girl,” added Ms. Maigné.
200 soldiers mobilized
An investigation for kidnapping and forcible confinement had been opened, the day after the mysterious disappearance of this young high school student, mobilizing some 200 soldiers to try to find her. “This qualification of kidnapping and sequestration is punishable by a criminal penalty in the event that the perpetrator voluntarily and quickly releases the person detained”, declared the prosecutor at the end of the afternoon to the press, seeming contact a possible kidnapper.
The prosecutor had however stressed that the “first elements collected” did not allow “as it stands to rule out any track, whether criminal, accidental or runaway”.