Just a week after her disappearance, the young woman is still not found. This Tuesday, January 31, 2023, a man already known to the police was arrested.
After having arrested a man already known to justice, the investigators may be able to move forward in this case of disappearance. Unlike the young Helena Cluyou, who disappeared in Brest who was filmed by CCTV cameras, no image of Sihem Belouahmia taken on the day of her disappearance has yet been shared. On January 25, 2023, this young woman, just 18 years old, mysteriously disappeared to the chagrin of her father and those around her.
Sihem Belouahmia was last seen in La Grand Combe, in the Gard. While visiting her grandmother, the girl may have been abducted according to investigators. The latter have, in the context of this case, arrested a man already known to justice. An arrest likely to bring new elements to this investigation first opened for “disturbing disappearance” before the facts were reclassified as “kidnapping and kidnapping” by the public prosecutor of Alès, François Schneider.
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An appearance at the assizes
A requalification which places the case in the hands of the criminal center of Nîmes, now in charge of finding the trace of the young woman. Although there is no element so far to put the investigators on the track of Sihem Belouahmia, the latter placed a man and his ex-wife in custody on Tuesday, January 31, 2023. The case is now of a nature criminal custody could last up to 96 hours for the two suspects.
According to our colleagues from Parisian, the man indicted by the investigators knows the missing girl well since he belongs to her family by marriage. The police are conducting a search at the home of this man already known to justice. Indeed, the latter is expected this Wednesday, February 1 to appear before the Assize Court of Gard in order to answer certain facts in the context of another case. “He was free until then and it is in this context that he would have participated in this kidnapping”, reports a judicial source to our colleagues from Figaro. The parents of Sihem Belouahmia have not heard from their daughter for 6 days now. “They are desperate and just want to see their daughter alive again”, assures Me Mourad Battikh, the lawyer for the family of the missing girl to our colleagues. According to the call for witnesses shared by the local gendarmerie, Sihem Belouahmia is 1m69 tall, has brown eyes and has straight, brown hair up to mid-back height.