With posters under his arm and roll of scotch tape in hand, Samira Abdelaoui goes up the Szekszard alley in Bezons (Val-d'Oise), a pedestrian lane lined with trees that leads to the entrances of buildings. On the doors of the clean halls, in the company of a young girl nicknamed Sasou, she sticks wanted notices.
For almost a year, his daughter Wissem, then aged 16, has disappeared without a trace. Or so little. It was here, precisely on July 31, 2019, that his cell phone was last marked. The only track, their only hope, which leads for the moment to an impasse. "The next three months we came here often," says Samira. We pasted posters, showed photos. "
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This Friday, July 3, with Wissem's best friend, she hands the photo to the people she meets. "Have you seen her before?" She asked a lady. "No, I live in Sarcelles," replied the passer-by. It's your daughter ? Samira replies: "Yes". The lady continues: "The children do not listen to what the parents say. Social networks do a lot of harm… ”She's right. On the day of her disappearance, Wissem had an appointment with a young man from Bezons, of full age, whom she had met on Snapchat two days earlier. Her number appeared on the teenager's telephone records.
On Wednesday July 31, 2019, Wissem, who had started an esthetician's apprenticeship at Body Minute in the Villabé shopping center for a month, leaves her parents' home in Evry-Courcouronnes (Essonne) at 7 a.m. She takes the bus next to her house at the Jean-Renoir stop and joins the neighboring bus station. Instead of going to her work, she would have taken the direction of the north of Ile-de-France. Around 10 a.m., his phone tapped at Bezons.
Then she goes to Mc Donald's des 4-Temps, the shopping center in the La Défense district (Hauts-de-Seine) to have lunch with the young man. Heard at the start of the investigation, he said that he had left Wissem alone to go do some shopping and allegedly said that he had not found her when he returned. "The problem is that the police did not check if he was telling the truth," notes Arash Derambarsh, a lawyer for Wissem's parents. Its trace is thus lost here.
On twitter, #ouestwissem to find the teenager
Since then, false tracks have multiplied. The teenager who should have celebrated her 17th birthday on February 13 would have been seen at the Pavillons-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), in Lyon (Rhône) or in Fontenay-le-Vicomte (Essonne). On March 16, the prosecution accelerated an investigation that was gathering dust by opening a judicial investigation against X for kidnapping and forcible confinement.
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In April, Sasou decides to appeal to social networks to find Wissem and in particular to the “Twitter community”. The hashtag #ouestwissem is created and shared more than 8000 times. A missing child was thus quickly found thanks to the mobilization on this social network. Wissem's photo wanted notices are relayed and calls pour in on Samira's phone, fueling a hope that has never died out.
Almost 1 year since Wissem disappeared RT it takes 2sec and it can save lives. Twitter did a good job of finding Armel, right? It has to be in TT and above all in the media !! # OuEstWissem pic.twitter.com/tkgiJuK1VG
- 🇩🇿 (@ dounia9555) June 29, 2020"There is a positive effect of social networks with these people who do research, judges a judicial source. But often it puts pressure on the investigators. There is also the risk of throwing a person into the pasture. The investigation is secret to allow the suspects to be confused. It's about proving, not denouncing. "
"My life ended on July 31," notes Samira. We don't make any plans, we just want to find it. Wissem, she nicknamed her "Wiwi". She called him "darling mom". "We had a good relationship, that's why it's not normal that she doesn't give news. It's proof that she's under someone's thumb. Definitely manipulated. " For Sasou too, it was not usual not to receive a phone call or a message. A follower of Thai boxing, the girl had given the virus to Wissem who was registered for a year at the club of Lisses.
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In Bezons, Samira hands the photo of Wissem to two children. "I've heard of it," said one. But I don't know her ”. "If you have older brothers, tell them to share on social media," says Samira. While Sasou sticks a poster on a pole, a car reverses. The man behind the wheel says, "If it's a wanted poster, I don't mind." I am responsible for education, I will show it around me. "
In front of the Lilac residence, a long 5-storey building, a young man takes a poster. " It has been a year ? Wow. I'm going to share, ”he promises. An elderly lady offers, "Do you want me to open the hall door?" It's normal, I put myself in your place. "
"We will never stop looking," said Sasou. Until my last breath. "
78 disappearances reported in 2020 in Ile-de-France at 116,000
The 116,000 emergency number for missing children currently lists 78 disappearances of children in Ile-de-France, reported in 2020, among which there are 52 runaways, 25 parental abductions and one worrying disappearance. These categories are defined by the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons. In 2019, 170 disappearance files were processed for the Paris region. At the national level, the figure of 51,000 disappearance reports is advanced. "A figure in which we can sometimes find the same children who run away several times over the course of a year," explains Laureen Burbau, communications manager for 116000.