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"I think of her every day": two years after her disappearance, the young Wissem remains nowhere to be found

2021-08-06T11:30:03.656Z


This teenager has not given any sign of life since July 31, 2019. Her cell phone was limited for the last time to Bezons, in Val-d'Oise.


It's as if life has stopped.

A part of us is frozen until we know what happened.

We are waiting but we keep hope, I think of her every day,

”explains Samira Abdelaoui, 42 years old.

His daughter, Wissem, mysteriously disappeared almost two years ago to the day.

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On Wednesday July 31, 2019, Wissem Abdelaoui - then aged 16 - went to his workplace in Villabé (Essonne). “

School wasn't really her thing, she wanted to start working life early

,” explains her mother. "

Sparkling

", "

flirtatious

" and attracted by aesthetics, the teenager has been on an apprenticeship contract since July 1 at Body'Minute, a beauty institute. “

Everything was going well,

” Samira explains soberly.

This July 31, as every morning for a month, Wissem takes her bus at Évry-Courcouronnes station, where she lives with her parents. She leaves without identity document, without money and without any business, except her cell phone and 7 euros for lunch. The trip lasts about twenty minutes, and the girl is supposed to hire at 7:30 am. But she will never arrive at her workplace.

Wissem's parents are alerted by his employer around 4 p.m.

Panicked, they manage to geolocate their daughter's cell phone: the device was limited to Bezons (Val-d'Oise) for the last time.

Wissem's father hits the road and arrives at around 6 p.m.

Alas, no trace of the teenager in Bezons.

The parents file a complaint the same evening for a disturbing disappearance.

How did she end up in Val-d'Oise, more than 50 kilometers from home?

Samira still wonders today.

Wissem Abdelaoui, 16, disappeared on July 31, 2019. Photo provided by the family.

A meeting at La Défense with a young man

Some time later, thanks to telephone records, Wissem's parents make a surprising discovery.

They realize that the teenager was actually on a date with a 17-year-old young man on the day of her disappearance.

This explains his absence from work.

She had been chatting with him for two days on Snapchat.

This young man's number is repeated in phone calls on the morning of July 31, 2019

, explains Samira.

She had never told us about him, but at that age we have our little secret garden

”.

Questioned by the police, the young man in question admits that he saw Wissem that day.

He says he had lunch with her at McDonald's in La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine), at the “

Westfield Les 4 Temps

shopping center

.

The McDonald's de la Défense where Wissem reportedly had lunch on July 31, 2019 (photo taken on August 4, 2021).

Guillaume Poingt / Le Figaro.

The young man says that he then went to make a purchase at Decathlon, a two-minute walk from McDonald's, and on his return Wissem was no longer present.

He would therefore be the last person to have seen her.

This version struggles to convince Me Arash Derambarsh, lawyer for Wissem's parents.

You have a 16 year old girl chatting with this boy on Snapchat.

This network is the favorite weapon of sexual predators and drug offenders because the messages are ephemeral and fade away.

This meeting at McDonald's is the crux of the matter,

”said Me Arash Derambarsh, surprised that the young man had gone for an errand in the middle of a meeting with Wissem.

A judicial investigation in progress

Just after the complaint lodged by Wissem's parents, a preliminary investigation was opened under the direction of the Evry prosecutor's office. “

This file was classified in the fugue part. I became a civil party on March 2, 2020: I filed a complaint for kidnapping and forcible confinement, which had not been done before. The prosecutor, on the basis of my constitution of civil party, opened a judicial investigation

”, explains Me Arash Derambarsh. On March 16, 2020, a judicial investigation for kidnapping and forcible confinement was indeed opened by the Evry prosecutor's office.

“Investigations were not made during the preliminary investigation. We obviously lost time. In the disappearance of children, we must immediately put the package ”

, deplores Me Arash Derambarsh. "

It's a case that was not taken seriously from the start, the police treated it like a runaway,

" Samira says. "

Today we are counting on Madam the magistrate of Evry so that the investigation can make up for lost time

", continues Me Arash Derambarsh. Where is the investigation today? “

The judicial investigation is still in progress. There is no arrest or indictment. The investigations are continuing

”, indicates the parquet floor of Evry in

Figaro

.

"

It's stagnating, we have no news,

" laments Wissem's mother, who despite all hope remains. She does not believe at all in a voluntary disappearance. “

We were going on vacation, we had done some shopping the previous Saturday. Wissem had bought a swimsuit, slides ... She had packed her suitcase. It was in a period of construction and plans for the start of the school year,

”she recalls. “

We tell ourselves that she is still alive but under what circumstances we do not know. We think she must be somewhere, held or under the control of someone,

says Samira.

We are considering all the possibilities, even if she can come home

”.

Source: lefigaro

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