On July 4, 1967, Fatima Abdesselam-Tani, a 25-year-old nursing assistant, disappeared near Bully-les-Mines (Pas-de-Calais).
The young woman was never found.
On Monday, bones were found on a construction site in the city.
We will have to wait for the results of DNA analyses to deny or confirm that it is indeed the young woman. An investigation was recently opened by the Lille prosecutor’s office after the discovery of bones on a construction site in Bully-les-Mines (Pas-de-Calais), near Lens. Investigations are underway to verify whether these remains could correspond to the body of a woman who disappeared in 1967, we learned from police sources on Monday.
The judicial police were contacted following the discovery.of bones” on June 20 under the construction site of the future municipal swimming pool, a police source said.
A young woman disappeared on July 4, 1967?
According to the first elements of the investigation, this skeleton could be that of a woman aged 18 to 25, whose body has been in this place for at least 50 years, reports another police source. Investigators are trying to establish whether a connection is possible with the disappearance of a woman, Fatima Abdesselam-Tani, a 25-year-old nursing assistant who was last seen alive on 4 July 1967 as she was leaving her mother’s home in Sains-en-Gohelle, just 5 kilometres from Bully-Les-Mines.
An investigation was launched by the Criminal Brigade of the Organised and Specialised Crime Division (DCOS) of the Interdepartmental Judicial Police Service (SIPJ59).
