Relief gave way to incomprehension.
After reappearing covered with scratches, Lisa, a 17-year-old teenager, whose disappearance at the beginning of the week had mobilized up to 200 soldiers in Mayenne, finally admitted to having imagined her kidnapping.
Now supported by her parents, the girl should this time be the subject of a procedure for denunciation of an imaginary offense.
We take stock.
What did she reveal?
In front of the insistence of the investigators, the young girl finally cracked Friday during a river hearing.
The high school student in terminal technology admitted having invented her kidnapping in front of the investigators.
The green van lurking near the forest and the duo of kidnappers she had mentioned earlier this week, would ultimately only be the fruit of her imagination.
"We had doubts from his hearing on Wednesday but it is the result of forensic expertise that paved the way for a fabrication," a source close to the investigations told the Parisian.
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Saying "sorry to have caused such an important mobilization", Lisa finally explained that her injuries were of accidental origin.
She is also said to have cut out her t-shirt herself with scissors.
"She cried a lot and admitted to having lied very quickly", had one reported in circles of the investigation.
It remains to be seen today the reasons which pushed the teenager to invent such an aggression.
What is the teenager at risk?
If Lisa admitted to lying, the teenager is not done with justice. These confessions should lead to prosecution for denouncing an imaginary crime. An offense, listed in article 434-26 of the Penal Code and punishable by six months' imprisonment and a fine of 7,500 euros. Finally, the high school student should soon be subjected to a psychiatric expertise, demanded by the courts and pending a new hearing to come, possibly under police custody this time.
The teenager's lie reminds others of them.
That for example of a young non-Jewish woman, who claimed in July 2004 to have been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack in the RER D. The investigation had revealed a fable and the young woman had been sentenced to four months in prison suspended for the same crime of imaginary denunciation.
Where is the investigation?
Despite his confession, the investigation still faces many gray areas.
Where did Lisa spend the 24 hours between her disappearance and her discovery?
The young jogger has so far refused to give more information on this subject.
She also did not say whether or not she was alone during this period.
Thus, the investigators cannot exclude a possible assistance of a third since the tracking dogs of the gendarmerie did not manage to follow his trail.
Finally, the reasons for such a lie are still unclear. The young woman would have mentioned during her hearing a trauma related to a previous assault. According to our information, this would have taken place during a burglary during the year 2019 at his home in Saint-Brice. The high school student explained at the time that she was home alone that day when she came face to face with thieves. The latter would have jostled her before taking flight, without taking any precious goods. She then alerted the gendarmerie.
Lisa had even painted a composite of a suspect that matched the physical description of one of her high school friends in every way, according to an acquaintance of the teenager's family.
The young boy had been heard before being exonerated, for lack of evidence.
Investigators are now wondering if this denounced aggression could have constituted a real psychological disturbance for the teenager or… if it did not already constitute the beginnings of a tendency to fabricate.
