Mayenne: what we know about the disappearance of the jogger


Sandrine Prioul, with AFP
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5:58 p.m., November 09, 2021

Vast anxiety in the peaceful village of Saint-Brice, in Mayenne. A 17-year-old girl, who left for a jog on Monday around 4 p.m. in Bellebranche wood, in the south of the department, never returned home. His father discovered, at the edge of this forest, headphones and his telephone on which there were traces of blood. Since Tuesday morning, about 200 gendarmes and a large device have been mobilized to try to find the young girl.

The prosecutor of the Republic of Laval announced Tuesday at the end of the afternoon that the investigation was now “open on the count of kidnapping and forcible confinement”. “The investigations are in progress and have only just begun, they are urgent but can prove to be long and complex”, also declared Cécile Maigné.

“Everyone is stunned”, blows a local resident

The research area is located in this national forest, between Mayenne and Sarthe, and a pond. Since Tuesday morning, this area has been very meticulously raked by the gendarmes who have completely surrounded the perimeter which is very popular with joggers and cyclists in normal times. The discovery of the objects belonging to the teenager with traces of blood is a shock for this peaceful village, and the concern grows among the inhabitants.

According to data from the Strava application, which tracks the movements of athletes using GPS data, the young woman ran 1 kilometer on Monday in Saint-Brice against a loop of five kilometers usually, and her route stops at the crossroads. of three country roads.

“The whole sector of the town is cordoned off. Everyone is stunned, especially for a small village like ours which is very calm”, says Jean-Marc, a resident of the village, who attended the mobilization of the forces of the army. order the night before. “We saw a helicopter circling above the village on Monday evening. We asked ourselves the question: was it an accident? And it was this morning that I heard the news. I know the parents (of the teenager) very well and we wonder in what condition they will find their daughter”, he testifies at the microphone of Europe 1.

A jogger used to running in this area

The 17-year-old went for a run several times a week in this forest located close to her home. Daughter of parents also quite athletic, we told Europe 1, the teenager often went to the village, the residents crossed her on the left, on the right. She is a young girl without history, it seems, educated a few kilometers from her home.

The investigation was entrusted on Monday evening to the research section of Angers and to the research brigade of the gendarmerie company of Château-Gontier sur Mayenne, according to the prosecution.



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