Oléron: the body found appears to be one of Alexia – The Point

The appearance and clothing of a body found Thursday in the south of the island of Oléron (Charente-Maritime) “correspond to those of Alexia”, a schoolgirl 15 years ago disappeared 40 days in the same area, said Friday the prosecutor of La Rochelle. According to preliminary findings of the autopsy performed Friday morning at Poitiers, “the body does not seem to have suffered sexual violence,” said the prosecutor, Isabelle Pagenelle, in a statement, adding that the causes of death will not be known that “at the end of further forensic analysis.”

the body was found Thursday about 14 hours in a water hole in the municipality of Saint-Trojan concealed “very carefully, under plant, making her particularly difficult discovery,” according to prosecutors. The body was found by gendarmes at one of the many field sweeps the south of the island has known since 1 February, date of death of the teenager. The research, in the following days, had mobilized forty gendarmes, a hundred gendarmes students, some two hundred inhabitants of the island, a helicopter and dog handlers.

The bag and its bicycle found

Alexia Silva Costa was seen for the last time on February 1 to 17 h 30 with his cell phone, as she left the maritime educational experimental Centre in Oleron (CEPMO), establishment where she was enrolled in second. She had to exchange SMS with a friend in Lyon, and his mobile went off the air shortly after. Only the bag and the bicycle the girl had been found in CEPMO.

The survey, first opened to worrying disappearance, was reclassified after a few days in “kidnapping” before opening of a judicial inquiry. The prosecutor said Friday it had opened a preliminary investigation for “voluntary homicide”, entrusted to the research section of the gendarmerie in Poitiers, including six gendarmes already fully devoted to the case. If the gendarmes initially excluded any track – runaway, abduction or bad encounter – the father of Alexia, Manuel Silva Costa had said in late February that investigators then favored the bad encounter or abduction

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