Research is continuing this Tuesday to try to find Agathe Hilairet, this 28 -year -old jogger who has been missing since last Thursday, in the Vivonne sector, near Poitiers (Vienne). A hundred gendarmes remain mobilized to lead targeted excavations, especially in the Bois de la Brie, near the home of the young woman’s parents.
But since Monday evening, the military has not work in the context of an investigation for “worrying disappearance” but of a judicial information for “kidnapping and sequestration”, after the requalification of the public prosecutor of Poitiers.
140 reports since the call for witnesses
Concretely, what will it change for the course of the investigation, now carried out by an investigating judge? The change in the framework of the procedure is “necessary” to “strengthen the means of the judicial inquiry”, explains the public prosecutor. It will allow “to continue the technical investigations, the analyzes (DNA, digital), the hearings, the searches”, he continues. Clearly: it gives “more means to investigators to carry out more acts of surveys”, explains a source close to the file.
The investigation for “disturbing disappearance” is also limited in time, since it cannot last beyond eight days. At the end of this period, the prosecutor may choose to continue the investigation, or to open a judicial information. If, at this stage, all hypotheses remain envisaged, the track of voluntary disappearance “is less and less likely”, confided on Monday to 20 minutes A source close to the file. Excavations at her home made it possible to confirm that the young woman had “short -term projects”, and that she was in active job research.
Investigators also collected some 140 reports since the call for witnesses broadcast on Thursday. Testimonials that should then be checked and supported to try to understand what happened. Could the joggage have made a bad meeting on her career? This is especially what they are trying to determine.
Seasoned joggers
Member of the running club Vivonne Loisirs, the young woman is a seasoned jogger, who travels “very long distances, on paths, roads, in the woods” explained the mayor of the town, Rose-Marie Bertaud to here Poitou. She knows perfectly the trails in the sector.
But, regularly evoking on social networks her eating disorders and her anorexia problem, the young woman was also on sick leave for a long time, according to a source close to the investigation.
