She disappeared on August 24, more than a month ago. Inna Ostapciuc was found safe and sound this Friday afternoon in Sevran, in Seine-Saint-Denis. This 43-year-old woman, suffering from cognitive disorders and originally from Moldova, had left her home in Saint-Pierre-Aigle, in Aisne, 70 km from the Parisian suburb. She had no longer given any sign of life.
“This is excellent news,” rejoices the Assistance and Search for Missing Persons (ARPD) Hauts-de-France association, which had been commissioned to search for her. According to one of the volunteer investigators, “it was a delegation of volunteers from Ile-de-France who carried out a field investigation and put up posters, because the family was convinced that they had been able to go to Paris”.
Found on the street
Inna Ostapciuc, who arrived in France in 2016, had first lived in the Paris region with her family before moving to Saint-Pierre-Aigle in 2021. The forty-year-old was found in the street where she surely shared her daily life with a small group of homeless people, according to a source.
“We do not yet know the circumstances which brought her to Sevran,” underlines Me Damien Legrand, lawyer for the family. She was interviewed by the police to find out if she had not been the victim of something during her journey. »
Friday evening, she was at the hospital to have a check-up. “She is shocked,” says at 20 Minutes, André S., his brother-in-law. She hadn’t taken her medication for a month, so she was a bit aggressive when the police picked her up, in a park, near a Lidl store. »
Recognized on a poster
“It was a resident of Sevran who recognized her after seeing the posters,” continues the brother-in-law. He notified the police station. » According to Inna’s first testimony, she arrived by car in Sevran with a woman.
“We are relieved,” slips André. This is the first night we’ll be able to sleep normally in a month. We had a lot of support. There will be time later to know the truth. »
The Soissons gendarmerie issued a wanted notice for a worrying disappearance on September 10. “After an argument over a trivial reason, Inna’s mother went out for an hour to go shopping. When she came back, her daughter was gone,” said a volunteer investigator.
Survey around stations
Certain ponds surrounding the town had been inspected and the gendarmes responsible for the investigation had tried to list the people who had traveled without a ticket on the day of his disappearance to the nearest station, in Soissons or Villers-Cotterêts.
“The reaction time was a little too long and the video surveillance images from these stations were no longer usable,” specifies the lawyer. A gendarmerie helicopter even flew over the area to find the trace of Inna Ostapciuc. The investigation remains open to try to find out how she could have ended up in Seine-Saint-Denis.
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