The main suspect Mahfoud H. confessed and confessed to the terrible murder of the young high school student from Gard, Sihem Belouahmia.
As revealed this morning, Thursday February 2, by The Parisianthe young high school student Sihem Belouahmia, who had been missing for a week, was finally found dead tonight in a forest in the Gard. The main suspect in this terrible drama, Mahfoud H., confessed between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. this Thursday, during a new hearing with the gendarmes of the Nîmes research section. The 39-year-old man, placed in police custody on Tuesday January 31, like his ex-girlfriend, explained that an argument would have broken out on Wednesday January 25 in the evening between him and the 18-year-old girl. always according to The Parisianthe suspect claims that the victim was in love with him but that this relationship refused him because Sihem was the cousin of his ex-companion. During their interview on the evening of the girl’s disappearance, Mahfoud H. would have tried to silence her putting his hand over his mouth. Sihem would then have died of suffocation. “I assisted a man who decided to face his heavy responsibility in the disappearance of Sihem and put an end to an unbearable suspense for his loved ones by guiding the investigators. He knows that his fault is not forgivable but his silence would only have made it worse“, declared with the Parisian Me Jean-Marc Darrigade, lawyer for Mahfoud H.
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A young girl with no history
Sihem Belouahmia had not given any sign of life for a week, after leaving around 11:10 p.m. on Wednesday January 25, the apartment of her 95-year-old grandmother, Fatima. Since that night, Sihem disappeared and his phone never again answered multiple calls from loved ones and family. It was Sihem’s father who went to report the disappearance of his only daughter, born in a family of four children, Thursday, January 26, at the police station in Alès. First described as a “worrying disappearance”, the public prosecutor of Alès, François Schneider, had finally opened a procedure for kidnapping and forcible confinementwhich made it possible to deploy additional investigative resources and to place the main suspect in police custody, Mahfoud H., who finally confessed.