In the case of the “disappeared from Fort Tamié” (Savoie), a citizen's search is organized from 8:30 a.m. Tuesday October 29 and until Wednesday evening. Jean-Christophe Morin and Ahmed Hamadou disappeared, one year apart, on September 11, 2011 and September 8, 2012. They were aged 22 and 45 respectively.
Both were participating in an electronic music festival before disappearing. Two instructions are in progress for “kidnapping and sequestration”. Seized in 2022, the national “serial or unsolved crimes” pole, known as the “cold cases” pole of the Nanterre court, considers that these two disappearances, in the same place, one year apart, are linked. Bones belonging to Ahmed Hamadou were found. On the other hand, there is still no trace of Jean-Christophe Morin. His sister Adeline hopes that this beating will advance the investigation.
“It’s very hard to say that we hope to find bones, but at the same time we have to know what happened to him.”
Adeline thinks that some will say “It’s very backwards, you just have to turn the page, you have to accept that it’s not there anymore”more “It's not possible. We can hardly mourn, we have no grave, no place, no answers”she sweeps away. For those close to Jean-Christophe Morin, “it seems like it was yesterday”she continues.
The research will focus around Fort Tamié, at an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters. This hunt will be supervised by the gendarmes. Between 25 and 30 people will participate every day. “More than three quarters of participants do not know us”underlines Adeline, the sister of Jean-Christophe Morin. That “warms the heart”confides the 45-year-old woman who launched this appeal on the social network Facebook, in a group called “disappearance of Jean-Christophe Morin: the mobilization continues”. Adeline explains that this research, 13 years after the disappearance of her brother, is important, “because we cannot guarantee 100% that every area, starting from the fort, has been very meticulously raked”. She denounces “the failings of the Albertville gendarmerie” at the time, but salutes “the rigor of today” of the investigating judge Sabine Khéris and “his mandated gendarmes”.
At the request of judge Sabine Khéris, who is investigating these two cases, each participant in the hunt will be equipped with a GPS beacon to map as precisely as possible the areas which have been searched and those which must still be explored, which represents a first. “The cold case division tries to use the best technological means”greets Me Marine Allali, from the Seban lawyers firm, representing the family of Jean-Christophe Morin. “We have the recent example of little Emile: everyone is wondering if the skull was already there or if someone passed right by without seeing it. With this technology, and these beacons GPS, we will know precisely where the participants in the hunt have gone”she argues. In May 2023, the Nanterre cold case center broadcast a video calling for witnesses because in this case, “people must have seen something. Thousands of festival-goers encountered Jean-Christophe and Ahmed and may have important information to give to investigators, even 13 years after the events”hopes Me Allali.
