Island Ola: the woman’s body found 40 days after the disappearance of a schoolgirl – TF1

A woman’s body was discovered Thursday in the south of the island of Oleron, in Charente-Maritime, where a teenage girl was missing for over a month, it is not possible at this stage to confirm a link between the two facts, has said a judicial source. The Procuratorate La Rochelle confirmed by early evening the discovery of a body “woman” in the afternoon, confirming information revealed by M6. No further details were available Thursday judicial source evening on the body, circumstances or place of discovery.

According to the website of Sudouest, the body was discovered around 15:30 by gendarmes who were pursuing field research in recent days. It was discovered in the municipality of Saint-Trojan, in a water hole, covered by branches, and is being identified. The south of the island of Oléron has been over a month since the scene of intense investigation and sweeps, following the missing , on February 1, Alexia Silva Costa, a 15 year old girl educated in second in Saint-Trojan in the south of the island.

The thesis of the fugue abandoned?

The teenager had been seen for the last time at 17:30 with his cell phone, as she left the maritime educational Experimental Centre in Oléron, his establishment. She had exchanged text messages with a friend in Lyon, and his mobile went off the air shortly after. Intense research, the next day, mobilized first forty gendarmes, then a hundred students-police, divers helicopter, dog handlers, and some 200 inhabitants of the island. In vain.

The survey, first opened to worrying disappearance was reclassified by the prosecution in “kidnapping”, before the opening of a judicial inquiry. Six gendarmes of Poitiers Research Section dedicate themselves fully. In all, nearly 80 people were interviewed in late February. Fugue, kidnapping or bad encounter, the police continued in recent weeks to explore all the tracks, and field research. While Alexia’s father, Manuel Silva Costa confided late February that investigators now seemed to rule out the theory of the fugue.