Le Figaro Nantes
“
Bad timing
”.
When told a week ago that the case was closed, Florence Jouve, Tessa's mother, suspected that it would eventually happen.
“
We knew it was a matter of time.
At the end of last year, the investigators had come to the end of their checks
, ”she confided to
Figaro
.
But this cessation of research comes a few days before the anniversary date of the death of his daughter.
On December 20, 2018, Tessa, a 17-year-old high school student, returned from her internship.
At 7:15 p.m., she got off her bus to go home to Saint-Julien-de-Concelles, in Loire-Atlantique, before being hit twelve minutes later.
And lose your life.
A scene that his mother is not ready to forget.
She was the second to arrive on this unlit road, before the emergency services and the gendarmes.
“
When I tried to reach Tessa who had not returned, I had a bad feeling.
It was not his style not to answer
”.
Since then, the mystery remains whole around the person responsible for the accident despite the calls for witnesses launched at the time.
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Today, “
for the investigation to be closed administratively, we must agree to recover the belongings that Tessa was carrying
,” adds Florence Jouve.
A
"poorly chosen synchronicity"
, barely a month before the four years of the drama.
If he hasn't been pressured to come get them, it's still beyond his strength.
And that wakes up a wound that she tries desperately to close.
Keeping hope means waiting for... I don't have time anymore
Florence Jouve, mother of Tessa
A feeling of anger still animates him.
While acknowledging the work done by the investigators, she expresses her “
anger with the system.
I wish we could recognize our suffering.
Our daughter is not a news
item.
For its part, the gendarmerie recalls that an investigation can be reopened in the event of denunciation or new significant element.
But Florence Jouve does not count on that.
"Keeping hope means waiting for... I don't have time anymore."
Rebuilding for her 11-year-old son becomes an emergency.
She also moved.
Walking past the scene of the tragedy every day was too painful.
Soon, a Japanese cherry tree will be planted there, in homage to Tessa.