This Friday, it will be exactly one month since Ling-Diane Zhang closed the door to the family apartment in Houilles, in Yvelines.
On Tuesday January 16 in the morning, this 25-year-old woman, a medical student at a Parisian faculty, is supposed to go to the capital.
She takes her Navigo pass, her bank card and her cell phone.
A few hours later, she was filmed at the Subway restaurant in Fontainebleau.
She is also seen near the Crédit Agricole in the center of the Imperial City.
His smartphone will mark the last time a few kilometers away, at the end of the day in Barbizon.
Since then, her family has had no news and has taken steps to try to find her.
Ling-Diane, a 25-year-old medical student, left her home in Houilles (78) on January 16 to go to Fontainebleau.
Since then, his family has had no news.
In recent hours, walkers in the Fontainebleau forest have been able to come across numerous soldiers busy crisscrossing the area.
Tuesday, Wednesday and this Thursday, around fifty gendarmes, from all over Seine-et-Marne, began a vast search campaign, particularly in the area east of Barbizon.
“We searched the caves, the holes, we combed the terrain,” confides a soldier.
Now seized, the Melun public prosecutor's office has entrusted the investigation into this worrying disappearance to the gendarmes of the Fontainebleau research brigade, supported by their colleagues from the Paris research section.
“During these three days, we inspected a large part of this part of the forest.
To help us, we had the reinforcement of fire dogs, as well as a helicopter from Villacoublay (Yvelines), specifies an investigator.
We are working on all the hypotheses and we are ruling out no avenues.
» The first days following Ling-Diane's disappearance, hunts had already been organized in the Fontainebleau massif, but by family, relatives and volunteers.
Research coordinated via a Facebook group bringing together no less than 1,400 people.
“If the soldiers haven’t found her, we can keep hope”
At the end of January, around twenty of them gathered in front of the Fontainebleau court with the family's lawyers.
A complaint for kidnapping and sequestration was then filed.
“The beatings stopped so as not to hinder the investigation and to let the gendarmes do their work,” said Maître Dominique Nardeux, lawyer for the family, this Thursday.
“If the soldiers haven't found her, we can keep hope,” confides Ling-Diane's father.
Runaway, kidnapping, suicide, investigators assure that they do not favor any lead.
“I don’t think she left with anyone,” the dad continues.
Maybe she had a bad encounter but I want to believe that we will find her alive.
» Described as being of average build, the medical student is 1.55 m tall and was wearing beige jogging pants, a short black down jacket and white Nike shoes at the time of her disappearance.