The body found Thursday on the island of Oléron (Charente-Maritime) is the one of Alexia, a schoolgirl 15 years gone close on February 1, confirmed the DNA analysis revealed Saturday. “The physiognomy and clothing» were consistent with those of the girl, said the prosecutor of La Rochelle, which opened an investigation Friday for “voluntary homicide” .
“female body” , according to initial indications prosecutors, was found Thursday around 2:00 p.m. in a water hole in a forest park in the municipality of Saint-Trojan. It was hidden “with great care, under plant, making her particularly difficult discovery” , said Friday the prosecutor, Isabelle Pagenelle, in a statement.
upon discovery, a team from the criminal research Institute of the national gendarmerie (IRCGN), had traveled by helicopter to the island to analyze the scene and make the necessary technical investigations to identify the body and date of death, said the judge.
An autopsy was performed Friday morning at the forensic Institute of Poitiers, and from its provisional findings, “the body does not seem have suffered sexual violence “. The causes of death will not be known “that after further forensic analysis” , ordered by the prosecutor, Ms. Pagenelle said.
The body was discovered by gendarmes during one of the many field sweeps the south of the island has known since February 1, the day of the disappearance of a teenager. The research, in the following days were particularly mobilized forty gendarmes, a gendarme-hundred students, some 200 residents of the island, a helicopter and dog handlers.
Alexia Silva Costa had been seen for the last time on February 1 at 5:30 p.m. with his cell phone, as she left the maritime educational experimental Centre in Oleron (CEPMO), institution where she was enrolled in second.
Two SMS , then nothing
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, set in a 16 hectare enclosed forest park, which also houses a nursing home for the disabled, between dunes and pine trees on the Marennes-Oléron basin.
the survey, first opened to worrying disappearance, was reclassified after a few days in “kidnapping” , before the 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 in recent weeks. In late February, nearly 80 people were interviewed
If the gendarmes initially excluded any track -. Fugue, removal or mishap – the father of Alexia, Manuel Silva Costa, had entrusted late February to AFP that investigators then favored the bad encounter or abduction. Friday, he said he was informed Thursday night by the police of the discovery of the body, and that “maybe this is Alexia.” “I have no confirmation” , he added, his voice breaking, calling himself “in severe pain, in great distress.” “But I have to continue, I have another daughter” , has he said.
In addition to this case, a man was set earlier this week for review “false accusation, forgery and use of false” , in a story of “raven” , a judicial source said.
in a separate procedure the investigation of Alexia, man, inhabitant of the island, was arrested after an anonymous letter denouncing another Oleron as having a responsibility in the disappearance of the schoolgirl. The man named in the letter was exonerated, but the author of the letter, identified by its DNA, was indicted and placed under judicial control. He acted out of revenge after a personal dispute
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