Despite the establishment of a large gendarmerie device, the searches yielded nothing on Monday and Tuesday. They continue this Wednesday, December 22. A judicial investigation was opened by the Vosges gendarmerie.
She has not given any sign of life for over 72 hours. Nadine Dieudonné, a 46-year-old hiker, has been missing since Sunday, December 19 in the Vosges mountains of Hohneck, as reported Vosges Morning . Information confirmed Tuesday at Figaro by the Xonrupt-Longemer mountain gendarmerie platoon, engaged in research.
The local gendarmes launched in the afternoon a call for witnesses, inviting anyone who may have seen the missing person or who can provide information useful for the investigation to come forward to the Saulxures-sur-Moselotte gendarmerie. A judicial investigation was opened by the Vosges gendarmerie.
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Originally from Épinal, the 40-year-old left to hike alone on snowshoes on Sunday, from Hohneck, towards Kasterlberg, on the border between the departments of Vosges and Haut-Rhin. It was her son, anxious not to be able to reach her, who gave the alert on Monday morning.
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Quickly, a gendarmerie device was deployed in the area to find the hiker, described as “a regular in the mountains“. About twenty soldiers from the two departments crisscrossed the massif all day long, supported by a dog team as well as a gendarmerie helicopter which flew over the area twice. In vain. Only the missing woman’s car was found near the parking lot of an inn, the starting point of her hike.
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The search resumed Tuesday morning with the reinforcement of firefighters from SIS 88. Several drones of the gendarmerie were also used. “The sector is huge and particularly complex. We will in particular go down in the corridors, these large slopes of snow where the missing person could have fallen», Specifies a gendarme of the Xonrupt-Longemer mountain platoon.
On Wednesday, efforts continued in the same area, without air support – all cleared areas having already been flown over. The task of the soldiers is all the more complex as the missing woman was wearing dark clothes at the time of her disappearance. “A kind of outfit that can easily be confused with the vegetation”, explains a gendarme.
In its call for witnesses, the Vosges gendarmerie specifies that it is a woman of average build who measures 1.62 m. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing black pants, a white and gray jacket with pink stripes. She was also equipped with glasses and a gray / khaki backpack.