For two weeks, dozens of police, private divers and numerous improvised detectives have been searching in vain for an English mother who disappeared while she was walking her dog, connected to a videoconference.
His relatives mobilized on Friday.
The mysterious disappearance of Nicola Bulley, whose face makes daily headlines, keeps the British in suspense, arousing strong emotion and doubts about the obstinacy of the police to favor the thesis of a fall in the local river.
“Unprecedented” investigation
Friends and family lined the roads in the vicinity of the village of St Michael's on Wyre in north-west England on Friday, where the 45-year-old woman lived: they held up signs and banners with her photo and a message: “
Bring Nikki home
”.
They hope to "
refresh the memory
" of someone who might have seen something suspicious, Emma White, a friend of Nicola Bulley, told the BBC.
She compared these days of research to "
roller coasters
", to "
torture
".
"
We just need Nikki to come home to her two beautiful little girls who need their momma
," she said.
Nicola Bulley's companion, Paul Ansell, described "
the hell
" in which his family is plunged, with his daughters asking where their mother is.
This real estate loan advisor seems to have vanished on the morning of January 27 while walking her dog near a river.
At 9:01 a.m., she was on a work call on Teams.
This remote meeting ended at 9:30 a.m., but his phone remained connected to the call.
At 9:35 a.m., a walker found the abandoned phone and the dog, alone and restless.
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Lancashire Police favor the accidental track and believe Nicola Bulley fell into the river.
But searches by police divers and then by a specialized private company were in vain.
Forty police officers are working on this file, said the police, speaking of an investigation of an "
unprecedented
" scale.
Since Thursday, the search has moved towards the mouth of the river, and even towards the sea.
The case fascinates so much that people have improvised detectives.
The police had to issue "
a dispersal order
".
According to The Daily Telegraph, videos on social media show people searching for Nicola Bulley in woods and private properties and criticizing the work of the police.
