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Death of Héléna Cluyou: 6000 people gathered in Brest in memory of the missing student

2023-02-18T16:48:33.143Z


His body was found charred in Argol, on the Crozon peninsula, about forty kilometers south of Brest. Six thousand people, according to the police, took part on Saturday February 18 in Brest in a white march in memory of Héléna Cluyou, a student nurse found dead ten days after her disappearance, at the end of January, while returning home to early morning. A large banner where one could read, written in pink, “ Héléna, we will never forget you ”, framed by a smiling portrait of the young woman wh


Six thousand people, according to the police, took part on Saturday February 18 in Brest in a white march in memory of Héléna Cluyou, a student nurse found dead ten days after her disappearance, at the end of January, while returning home to early morning.

A large banner where one could read, written in pink, “

Héléna, we will never forget you

”, framed by a smiling portrait of the young woman who was going to celebrate her 21st birthday on February 1, opened the march.

The young woman, student nurse, was going to celebrate her 21st birthday on February 1.

FRED TANNEAU / AFP

Her close friends at the head of the procession were followed by her promotion colleagues from the Brest CHRU nursing school, wearing a white coat flocked with Helena's first name written in felt-tip pen on tape.

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The crowd took in silence, for about fifty minutes, the last route taken by the student, on January 29, since leaving a discotheque, at the port of Brest, to the Recouvrance district, where a camera of CCTV captured his last image.

Many were the young people of Brest to meditate in tribute to the 20-year-old girl.

FRED TANNEAU / AFP

Despite the drizzle, many Brestois, often coming with white roses, wanted to support the relatives of the victim of this tragedy which traumatized the city.

After a brief tribute, read by a sobbing relative, the procession dispersed shortly before 4 p.m.

Friday, more than 500 people had attended the funeral of Héléna Cluyou, according to the Telegram.

After a brief tribute, read by a sobbing relative, the procession dispersed shortly before 4 p.m.

FRED TANNEAU / AFP

The day the student's charred body was found in Argol, on the Crozon peninsula, about forty kilometers south of Brest, the suspect, a 36-year-old from Brest, died after a double suicide attempt.

He had confided to relatives "

having committed a mistake

" and that "

it was an accident

".

The investigations “

will continue to determine as precisely as possible the scenario which led to this death

”, assured the public prosecutor of Brest, Camille Miansoni, at the end of last week.

Source: lefigaro

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