The searches begun on November 25 after the report of this “disturbing disappearance” resumed even before daybreak near the teenager's home, Jean-Baptiste Gautier, commander of the gendarmerie company of Guingamp, which manages operations.
What research?
“This morning we checked all the people who took the teenager's usual route” to go to school “on the assumption that these people were the vast majority of those who took it last Monday” and were able to come across Morgane , he explained.
“We were able to collect testimony from everyone, whether motorists, pedestrians, bus drivers, passengers,” continues Commander Gautier, “and we also continue to go door to door for a neighborhood survey” .
About two kilometers away, under intermittent rain, a team of four uniformed gendarmes methodically go up a street in Guingamp leading to Pabu, almost deserted at this hour. They stop at each house to knock on doors.
Many occupants are absent but “people talk to us when they are there”, assures one of the investigators who does not want the presence of the media during the operation.
“We are looking for any traces, clues, testimonies, anything that can help us move forward in our investigation” to find the schoolgirl, summarizes Commander Gautier.
After an argument
According to the Saint-Brieuc prosecutor, Nicolas Heitz, Morgane left her home on Monday November 25 around 7:15 a.m. Her parents, “busy getting ready”, did not see her leave but she said “goodbye” to them as usual. “. But she never showed up at her college.
The teenager, who had an argument with her parents over the weekend over her use of social media, has not given any sign of life since then.
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Watercourses were probed, a search organized on Friday with the help of hundreds of volunteers, to no avail. And a week after the events, no hypothesis is officially favored by the investigation.
“Is she still in Pabu?” In a neighboring town or in Paris? All scenarios are possible, that’s what’s distressing,” Denise Thomas, 72, told AFP, leaving a gymnastics class.
“In the evening, when I see night falling, I say to myself: “where is this kid going to spend the night?” “, blurted out the retiree we met in the town hall square of the small town of 2,800 inhabitants.
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Her granddaughter herself was afraid at the news of this disappearance, “she didn't want to walk to school last week: her mother had to drive her. » “There is a feeling of helplessness too, because we would like to help, we don’t know what to do. I have a hard time with it, I admit,” adds a gym classmate, Claudine Connan, 72 years old. “I had nightmares about it that woke me up last night!” », assures a third.
“We hope that this research will have a happy outcome,” says Denise Thomas. But the shadow of Lina, a 15-year-old teenager who disappeared in Alsace in September 2023 and whose body was discovered more than a year later in Nièvre, looms large in many conversations in Pabu, she confides.
