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700 to 800 volunteers mobilized for a hunt this Friday in to find Morgane, 13 years old, missing since Monday

The search had not been completed by midday and had to continue.

Pabu town hall had called Thursday evening for mobilization on his Facebook page to find young Morganenative of this Breton town of 2,800 inhabitants where she still resides.

Friday morning they were 700 to 800 to have answered the callaccording 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”indicated the club on social networks.

“I am very satisfied and very pleasantly surprised to see that people are mobilizing and feeling concerned by this disappearance. I know the family is very touched too.”Jean-Baptiste Gautier, commander of the Guingamp gendarmerie company which is leading the search operation, told journalists.

“I came to try to find the little one who has disappeared since Monday. I feel concerned because my daughter is the same age”explained to AFP Anne-Christelle Gautier, 37, bus driver.

“As we’re from the area, we took advantage of it. The more people there are, the more likely it is to be able to find it quickly.”, says Morgane Le Fort, a 23-year-old saleswoman, stressing that it is also about showing support for the teenager's family.

The commander of the Guingamp gendarmerie, Jean-Baptiste Gautier, during a search operation to find Morgane Rivoal around Pabu on November 29, 2024 AFP / Damien MEYER.

In addition to this highly publicized battle, “there is also a whole research phase which is not visible, with investigators who have been working on it since Monday already”underlined Commander Gautier.

The public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc, Nicolas Heitz, opened an investigation into “worrying disappearance”reported on Monday morning by Morgane's mother, “the young girl did not go to her school”.

“Numerous human and technical resources were immediately deployed by the gendarmerie soldiers”according to the magistrate, specifying that “the family and friends were heard”.

The teenager “had never run away before” et “a dispute arose with his parents over the weekend”, added Mr. Heitz.

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