Several hundred volunteers, supervised by the gendarmerie and civil protection, participated on Friday in a hunt organized in Pabu (Côtes-d'Armor) to find a 13-year-old girl, still missing at the end of the day, according to corroborating sources .
“The gendarmerie units are fully committed to exploring all avenues in order to find this young girl as quickly as possible. This commitment will not weaken as long as this teenager is missing,” writes prosecutor Nicolas Heitz in a press release.
In addition to divers, a helicopter and searches, including that of Friday with the participation of volunteers, “the searches carried out at the family home and in other homes of his relations proved unsuccessful,” adds the magistrate.
The Pabu town hall called for mobilization on its Facebook page on Thursday evening to find young Morgane, a native of this Breton town of 2,800 inhabitants where she still resides.
Friday morning, there were 700 to 800 people who responded to the call, according to the gendarmerie, including members of the neighboring En Avant Guingamp (L2) football club. “Our players are joining the search to find Morgane, who has been missing for several days. The training scheduled for today has been postponed,” the club said on social media.
“I am very satisfied and very pleasantly surprised to see that people are mobilizing and feeling concerned by this disappearance. I know that the family is very touched too,” Jean-Baptiste Gautier, commander of the gendarmerie company, told journalists. de Guingamp who is leading the search operation.
“I came to try to find the little girl who has disappeared since Monday. I feel concerned because my daughter is the same age,” Anne-Christelle Gautier, 37, a bus driver, explained to AFP.
“The more people there are, the more likely it is to be able to find her quickly,” says Morgane Le Fort, a 23-year-old saleswoman, stressing that it is also about showing support for the teenager’s family. .
In addition to this highly publicized search, “there is also a whole phase of research which is not visible, with investigators who have been working on it since Monday”, underlined Commander Gautier.
The Saint-Brieuc public prosecutor opened an investigation into a “disturbing disappearance”, reported on Monday morning by Morgane's mother, “the young girl not having gone to her school”.
The teenager “had never run away in the past” and “a dispute arose with her parents over the weekend relating in particular to Morgane's use of social networks”, according to Mr. Heitz.
After “a heated discussion”, “her father broke his daughter's mobile phone and took her SIM card”, added the prosecutor. According to the testimony of a friend of the teenager, the latter “was able to indicate on social networks that she would not come to class on Monday”.
Monday, Morgane left her home around 7:15 a.m. and “her parents did not see her leave, busy getting ready, but she said goodbye to them as usual”, according to the same source.
