Sandrine Prioul, with AFP 1:55 p.m., November 9, 2021, modified at 2:21 p.m., November 9, 2021
About 200 gendarmes are mobilized to try to find the 17-year-old teenager, who went for a jog Monday evening in a forest in the south of Mayenne.
Earphones and her phone covered in blood had been discovered by the girl's father on the edge of this forest.
The concern is setting in the village of the young girl.
Great concern in the peaceful village of Saint-Brice, in Mayenne.
A 17-year-old girl, who went for a jog on Monday around 4 p.m. in the Bois de Bellebranche, in the south of the department, has never returned home.
His father discovered, on the edge of this forest, headphones and his phone with traces of blood on them.
Since Tuesday morning, about 200 gendarmes and a large device have been mobilized to try to find the young girl.
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"Everyone is stunned", blows a local resident
The research area is located in this national forest, between Mayenne and Sarthe, and a pond.
Since Tuesday morning, this area has been very meticulously raked by the gendarmes who have completely surrounded the perimeter very popular with joggers and cyclists in normal times.
The discovery of the objects belonging to the teenager with traces of blood is a shock for this peaceful village, and concern is growing among the inhabitants.
"The whole area of the town is cordoned off. Everyone is stunned, especially for a small village like ours which is very quiet," says Jean-Marc, a resident of the village, who attended the mobilization of the forces of the order from the night before.
"We saw a helicopter circling over the village on Monday evening. We asked ourselves the question: was it an accident? And it was this morning that I heard the news. know the parents (of the teenager) very well and one wonders in what condition they will find their daughter ", he testifies at the microphone of Europe 1.
A jogger accustomed to running in this area
The 17-year-old would run several times a week in this forest located close to her home.
Daughter of parents who are also quite athletic, we told Europe 1, the teenager often went to the village, the residents passed her on the left, on the right.
She is a young girl without history, it seems, educated a few kilometers from her home.
The investigation was entrusted on Monday evening to the Angers research section and to the research brigade of the gendarmerie company of Château-Gontier sur Mayenne, according to the prosecution.
A press conference with the prosecutor is due to take place Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the Laval court.