Colette Humbert left her home in Richwiller, in the suburbs of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) on Friday February 5 to go for a walk and never returned.
Worried to see that his wife had still not returned after the curfew, her husband contacted the gendarmerie around 7 p.m.
Is it a voluntary disappearance?
Did she have a bad meeting?
The investigators are studying the different hypotheses, although it would be, according to the prosecutor of Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot, "
of a worrying disappearance which could have gone wrong
", insofar as "
several worrying signals leave to think that she could have killed herself
”.
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Nothing foreshadowed the disappearance of Colette Humbert.
She was a woman in the prime of her life, dynamic, very athletic, and who regularly practiced walking.
However, if the sixty-year-old did not present "
any cognitive problem
", the latter had "
made several attempts before
", and "
could have dark thoughts from time to time
", specifies the parquet floor in
Figaro
.
Despite the mobilization of a helicopter, a team of divers, tracking dogs and residents during a hunt of more than 500 people organized on Sunday February 14, the searches, orchestrated from the evening of the disappearance by the community of the Morschwiller-le-Bas / Lutterbach gendarmerie brigade (Cob), were unsuccessful.
"
The gendarmes did their utmost, they did everything they could do for a worrying disappearance by mobilizing all their resources, even though all these means are not always mobilized for a disappearance
", comments
the president to
Le Figaro.
from the Assistance and Search for Missing Persons (ARPD) association, Pascale Bathany.
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"
As soon as weather conditions allow, field research will resume,
"
the Mulhouse gendarmerie
told
Le Figaro
, which had to delay exploring the surrounding area because of the weather and the cold that has reigned in the region for the week. last.
“
But that doesn't mean the research stops: helicopters and divers, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Even today, we have gendarmes who patrol.
But, quite simply, it is less visible than the significant resources that we mobilized from the first investigations
”, continues the gendarmerie.
For the prosecutor of Mulhouse, if the main track does not seem to be linked to a "
suspicion of a criminal case
", it is nevertheless a question of "
closing no door
".
