Alexia died on Oleron island that is known about the arrested schoolboy – The Obs

A suspect 16-year high school student, was arrested Tuesday on the island of Oléron (Charente-Maritime) and placed in custody in the investigation into the death of Alexia. The body of the 15 year old girl was found in March on the island, more than a month after his disappearance on February 1

The young suspect, enrolled in the same school as the victim. – maritime experimental educational center at O Léron (CEPMO) – was arrested in late afternoon by the police of Poitiers research section.

Extinct in after school

For the time being, no further details were available about the suspect, or the circumstances of his arrest, which occurred after classes to CEPMO a experimental High school which hosts including students with learning difficulties, breaking with the institution or with their families, and strives to socialize them and empower them.

the floor of the Rochelle confirmed in evening the inquiry of the teenager, and said that a statement would intervene if necessary “based on changes in police custody”.

Alexia Silva Costa was seen for the last time on 1 February around 17:30 with his cell phone, as she left the facility where she was enrolled in second, a high school located in an enclosed forest park of 16 hectares in the south of the island of Oléron , along the Marennes basin Oléron .

the girl came to exchange SMS with a friend in Lyon and mobile stopped broadcasting shortly after. Only his bag and his bicycle had been found in high school after his sudden disappearance.

The body carefully hidden

Several days of intense and fruitless search on the island had mobilized forty gendarmes, one hundred students-police, some 200 people, a helicopter and dog handlers. The survey, first opened to worrying disappearance, was reclassified after a few days in “kidnapping”.

The body of Alexia was eventually found March 10 in a water hole in a forest park in the municipality of Saint-Trojan-les-Bains, near the high school. It was carefully concealed under plant, making its discovery “particularly difficult”, had indicated the floor of La Rochelle.

The death of the girl by asphyxiation was the preferred hypothesis by the senior medical forensic following the initial results of the autopsy, release mid-March by the la Rochelle floor. But the body, according to the provisional findings, did not seem to have suffered sexual violence.

The prosecution had opened in mid-March after the body was found a criminal investigation for “voluntary homicide” and entrusted the inquiry to the research section of the gendarmerie of Poitiers. In the weeks after the disappearance, a cell of six gendarmes already fully devoted to the case.

The disappearance remained unexplained for over a month, then the discovery of the body of Alexia had deeply moved the town of Saint-Trojan-les-Bains, where she lived. A white march had gathered March 16, nearly 800 people over one kilometer between the village square and the waterfront.

L.B. with AFP