Going to discover Japan, Tiphaine Véron has evaporated in nature.
Her family has not heard from this 36-year-old school assistant for three years to the day.
And the investigation by the Japanese police did not yield anything.
His relatives, who do not rule out a crime, have chosen to relaunch the investigation.
Tiphaine Véron's gaze is now enthroned on a wall in Poitiers.
This large fresco, produced by the graffiti artist Rebeb, was inaugurated Thursday morning: three years, to the day, after the mysterious disappearance of this 36-year-old school assistant when she arrived in Japan.
Today, his family still tries to relaunch the investigation and leans more and more for the criminal track.
"A mixture of grief, despair and enormous hope at the same time"
“But where are you my Tiphaine?” Anne Désert-Véron repeats over and over, her voice full of sobs.
This question keeps coming back and Tiphaine Véron's mother, who disappeared three years ago in Nikko, a peaceful tourist town north of Tokyo, Japan, still has no answer.
The investigation undertaken in the Asian country has stalled.
On the spot, searches carried out by relatives did not yield anything.
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At first, Anne Désert-Véron hoped to find her daughter alive.
Then the more time passes, the more difficult the absence of news is.
"We hope to find her alive, then we hope to find at least her body. But there is nothing. Not an ounce of element that can prove an accident", she tells Europe 1. Before adding on the verge of tears: "It's a mixture of heartache, despair and enormous hope at the same time."
"We have little dug into the hypothesis of a criminal disappearance"
The hope of the family is now embodied by Me Antoine Weil.
For him, there is no question of neglecting the criminal track.
"The case seems to have been treated from the outset as a disappearance, since no body has been found. We have little dug into the hypothesis of a criminal disappearance."
The lawyer asks the Japanese justice for new investigations, on testimonies not collected from people in the hotel or even telephone clues not exploited.
"These elements have not been sufficiently illuminated in our opinion", continues Me Antoine Weil.
To try to remove these gray areas, the lawyer called on a former gendarme who has been converted into the private sector. He should leave for Japan in the footsteps of Tiphaine Véron in the coming weeks. A call for donations has also been launched on the Unis pour Tiphaine site: 60,000 euros are needed to get there.