Searches continue to find Steve Maia Caniço and investigations are continuing, said Monday the departmental director of public security, more than three weeks after the disappearance of the young man during the Music Festival, completed by an operation controversial police.
"The investigations are continuing," said Benoît Desferet, new DDSP Loire-Atlantique, after the ceremony of his taking office. "The investigations are ongoing," he added, without further details.
Three investigations are conducted
Three separate investigations have been carried out since the disappearance of Steve Maia Caniço, a 24-year-old school leader: a judicial inquiry opened by the Nantes public prosecutor's office and entrusted to an investigating judge, an investigation by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) ) on the conditions of the police intervention and an investigation on the initiative of the Defender of Rights.
Jacques Toubon seized himself, on July 10, to investigate the conditions under which the young man disappeared on the night of June 21 to 22, while he participated with friends in a techno party on a quay of the island of Nantes, overlooking the Loire and unsecured.
Fourteen people were fished in the Loire
Around 4:30, clashes erupted between participants and police, came to demand the stop of the music. Many participants claimed to have been blinded by a cloud of tear gas and panicked in the river. Fourteen people had been rescued in the Loire by the help of the night.
A collective complaint from 85 participants was filed on 3 July at the prosecutor's office "for endangering the lives of others and voluntary violence by persons holding public authority".
Tags, posters and signs continue to appear in the streets of Nantes, all asking the same question: "Where is Steve?"