Europe 1 with AFP 11:41 am, November 10, 2021

Twenty-four hours after her disappearance in Mayenne, the 17-year-old jogger was found alive Tuesday evening in a restaurant in Sablé-sur-Sarthe about ten kilometers from her home.

The man who had been arrested and taken into custody was released without prosecution.

The man taken into police custody Monday evening after the disappearance of the 17-year-old jogger in Mayenne, found alive Tuesday evening, was exonerated, the Laval prosecutor announced on Wednesday.

“As part of the investigation into the disappearance of a young jogger in Saint-Brice, the custody measure taken on Monday, November 8 ended on Tuesday.” The investigations carried out have shed light on the elements that motivated this measure and to rule out the implication of the accused person, "said Laval prosecutor Céline Maigné in a statement.

The high school student is hospitalized

This man had been taken into custody while he was intoxicated "in order to clarify his schedule in view of the few inconsistencies during his first statements," Ms. Maigné said Tuesday. According to several media, he had called the gendarmes on several occasions to try to obtain information on the disappearance of the young girl. The prosecutor declined to comment on these elements.

The young high school student was found alive Tuesday evening in a restaurant in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, about ten kilometers from the area where she had gone jogging.

According to the mayor of the city Nicolas Leudière, she was "extremely shocked".

She was hospitalized.

"The investigators are continuing their investigations into the circumstances of the disappearance, aided by the statements of the young girl," added Ms. Maigné.

200 soldiers mobilized

An investigation for kidnapping and sequestration had been opened, the day after the mysterious disappearance of this young high school student, mobilizing some 200 soldiers to try to find her.

"This qualification of kidnapping and forcible confinement is punishable by a tort in the event that the perpetrator voluntarily and quickly releases the person detained", declared the prosecutor at the end of the afternoon to the press, appearing contact a possible kidnapper.

The prosecutor had however stressed that the "first elements collected" did not allow "in the state to rule out any lead, whether criminal, accidental or fugue".