Relief in Pabu in Côtes-d’Armor . Fifteen days after disappearing from the family home, Morgane, 13, was finally found in the Manche, at Coutances this Tuesday, December 10. A 21-year-old man was taken into custody.
Found in a young workers’ home
It was at the beginning of the week that the teenager was located in Coutances in Mancheindicates the public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc Nicolas Heitz in a press release Tuesday, December 10. She was in a hostel for young workers in the city. According to franceinfo information from a source close to the investigation, it was information from a witness from Charente-Maritime received on Monday, according to which the teenager had been seen in the South-West with a young man, which allowed to locate the young girl in Normandy. According to the police, she is healthy.
Lucie Thuillet
A man arrested
The person who sheltered the teenager, a 21-year-old man, was arrested and taken into custody of the chef “arrest, kidnapping, sequestration of a minor under the age of fifteen“The exact course of events must still be clarified. The hearing of this suspect as well as Morgane, “who must be examined by a doctor and heard by investigators“, should allow us to find out more.
Contrary to what a source initially indicated, the young man is not registered in the File of perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses (Fijais).
Fifteen days of investigation
Since Morgane's disappearance, investigators have stepped up their investigations, notably organizing huntscarrying out auditions among the teenager's family and friends. Roadside checks were carried out and drones used. A dog team was deployed. The dogs marked not far from the family home before losing the track. On December 2, a judicial investigation to “research the causes of the disappearance” had been opened by the Saint-Brieuc public prosecutor's office.
Why did the young girl leave the family home?
This is the question that still remains unanswered. According to information communicated by the prosecutor during a press conference 10 days agothe young girl felt bad about herself, which was reported by some of her comrades in any case. The day before his disappearance, an argument broke out at the family home concerning Morgane's use of social networks. His phone had been broken. In the girl's basket, a crumpled paper with the writing “Dad, mom, sorry, I'm leaving'”, had also been found.
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“A huge relief” to Pabu
The mayor of Pabu, the town where Morgane lives, expressed this Tuesday “his emotion“and his”immense relief, especially for his family“. “The more the days passed, the more anxiety grew, we came to imagine the worst.”underlines Pierre Salliou, who praises “the work of the gendarmerie and investigators“, with “a lot of resources mobilized“. Il “also takes his hat off to all those who participated in the research and the search. I was very surprised to see the number of young people“.
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