But where did Mamie Fatou go?
This is the question that many residents in Bessancourt (Val-d'Oise) ask themselves.
Her relatives have had no news of this 64-year-old resident of the town, who has been missing since Friday evening.
The family issued a wanted notice and reported the disappearance of Fatou Sidibé (née Diop) on Saturday at the Ermont police station.
“She has had cognitive problems and memory loss for two or three years,” says Coumba, her daughter.
Several people reported seeing her over the weekend in Paris, at the Gare du Nord, at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport and in Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis), but she has not been found at this time.
“She worked for 30 years in a school canteen in Bessancourt.
Everyone knows her,” says Coumba.
The mayor, Jean-Christophe Poulet (DVG), confirms this reputation.
“He is an emblematic character of the Lamartine school and the Brosses et Malais district,” he tells us.
Through her profession, she has seen many generations of schoolchildren pass through.
“The grandmother of all children”
His personality often left an impression on them.
“She’s a bit like the grandmother of all the children at school.
My four daughters knew her.
One of them asked me: what happened to Mamie Fatou?
», adds the elected official.
His photo had been published on city billboards and in the municipal magazine as part of a campaign on municipal agents.
Mamie Fatou was last seen on Friday evening, around 5:50 p.m.
“She left her house to go for a walk,” explains Coumba.
The latter went to the home of her mother, who lived alone, later in the evening, but she was no longer there.
It was a neighbor of the building who told him that he had seen the retiree leaving her house a little earlier.
Coumba went to report her disappearance the next day.
The message was relayed almost everywhere.
In the town of Noisy-le-Sec, people even spoke to him.
“It was a caregiver who saw her sitting in a building lobby.
She had taken shelter because it was raining.
The description strongly resembles my mother,” she says.
She adds that other residents of this building saw her and think that she spent the night from Saturday to Sunday there.
Marauding in town to find her
The town hall of Bessancourt was informed on Sunday of his disappearance.
“We sent technical services to the school.
They found nothing.
They also raided the city,” specifies Jean-Christophe Poulet.
The elected officials also went to see if it was not on one of the construction sites underway in the town.
Around fifty residents also took part in the search, including some children, in Bessancourt and neighboring towns, without finding any trace of him.
“It’s a bit worrying that it’s lasting this long,” he worries.
Coumba specifies that her mother speaks French, that she is 1.59 m tall, wears glasses and a scarf on her head.
She is dressed in a very colorful fabric loincloth, sneakers and a thick dark blue sweater.
She left without her cell phone.
People who encountered her can contact the family at the following numbers: 07.53.63.63.04 or 06.27.04.15.20.