This Monday at the start of the morning, Sylvie Dartois, Victorine's mother, made a poignant appeal to her missing daughter: “We miss her, her sisters, her brother, everyone misses her.
Victorine, where you are, if you can hear me, don't worry my darling, everyone is looking for you.
And if there is an abuser, if he hears me, let him release our daughter.
Give it back to us, that's all we ask of you.
Sylvie did not know that by the time she spoke, her daughter was already dead.
In the middle of the day, it was a dog handler from the gendarmerie, guided by his animal, who made the macabre discovery, in a river, not far from the place of Victorine's disappearance on Saturday evening, near the Prairie stadium. , in Villefontaine (Isère), 19,000 inhabitants.
“The dog marked at a nozzle, in a small stream.
In this stream, we found Victorine's shoes and handbag.
The dog continued to go up the stream and higher up, we found a body in a place that was difficult to access, ”Vienna prosecutor Audrey Quey explained.
The body discovered is that of Victorine.
The gendarmes ask his parents, his two sisters and his brother to go to the gendarmerie.
This is where the prosecutor tells them the terrible news.
Later, during a press conference, the magistrate clarified that the forensic pathologist who went there could not identify the causes of death on the submerged body.
We will therefore have to wait for the results of the autopsy to find out more.
But the criminal aspect of this case is beyond doubt.
"Victorine will remain in our hearts forever"
The Vienna prosecutor opened an investigation for "kidnapping, forcible confinement and intentional homicide" and decided to call for witnesses.
"Anyone likely to provide information in the context of this case is invited to call the following number: 0800 200 142." It is the criminal department of the Grenoble court which will now lead the investigations carried out by the Research Section (SR) of the Isère gendarmerie.
Patricia, one of Victorine's aunts, wanted to react: “It's awful, dramatic.
Victorine was only 18 years old.
I do not understand that we can do this.
I hope they will stop the one or those who made this atrocity and who broke a whole family.
Victorine will remain in our hearts forever.
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The young girl had disappeared this Saturday evening, shortly before 7 p.m. In the afternoon, she had gone to the village to do some shopping.
“She had taken a first bus to the roundabout near the stadium.
At this point, she missed a second bus to go back to her home, in the Fougères district, on the heights of Villefontaine.
She called her sister Perrine to tell her that she would go with her to the Bourgoin-Jallieu fair, that she was going back up on foot, that she hardly had enough for a quarter of an hour.
She is used to this path.
But it never happened, ”says Sylvie Dartois.
"Suspicious of people she didn't know"
When she last called her relatives on the phone, Victorine told them that she was almost out of battery.
Her phone then went silent all evening, as her family, in anguish, tried to reach her.
The important searches carried out by the gendarmes, with the support of a helicopter, had not yielded anything.
Just like the incredible mobilization of the population, 350 inhabitants of Villefontaine having spontaneously participated this Sunday in the research.
Shortly before knowing that she would never see her daughter again, Sylvie Dartois had described Victorine as "kind, cheerful, pleasant, very appreciated by everyone and who has never had any problems with anyone".
Victorine was a student in the Lyon region.
“She didn't have a boyfriend,” her father James added, adding: “Victorine was shy, reserved, suspicious of people she didn't know.
She would never get in the car with anyone.
Very pretty, has the student been approached by an individual who has made advances to her and that she has tried to push back?
That will be for the investigation to determine.
