Four days after Agathe’s disappearance, investigators are thinking more and more about the hypothesis of a criminal action.
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- Agathe, a 28 -year -old woman has not given a sign of life for 4 days. This jogger has been missing since Thursday, April 10, around 10:30 am, when she left running. His mobile phone was located for the last time in the afternoon of Thursday within a 250-meter department between the locals “Les Grands Ormeaux” and “Le Field Salaud”, in Voulon.
- At this stage of the investigation, the hypothesis of a bad meeting is privileged. A testimony evokes a person with the behavior deemed suspicious, but this information remains to be verified. More specifically, an “ladle” individual would have been seen by a witness close to a wooded and isolated area that Agathe could have crossed during his sporting exit.
- The Poitiers prosecutor’s office announced the opening on Monday of a judicial investigation for removal and forcible confinement against X, to strengthen “technical investigations, analyzes (DNA, digital), hearings, searches” and give the investigators “all the prerogatives of investigation”.
- Nearly 200 people (gendarmes, firefighters or military) have been mobilized to crisscross the research area since Thursday. From now on, the research area is concentrated on 3km2 around Vivonne. Research is made difficult because of wooded, very dense areas and aquatic surveys are conducted by the Arcachon nautical brigade.
- Agathe measures 1.65 m and is described as extremely thin. She wore a “joggist’s outfit”, namely black shorts and a race bag, the day of her disappearance. Anyone with information that could help investigators are called upon to contact the Vivonne police station on 05.49.43.41.15.
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5:47 pm – An open judicial information for “kidnapping and sequestration”
It is an announcement which is not surprising but which gives a new dimension to this case of disappearance. The Poitiers prosecutor’s office announces the opening of judicial information for kidnapping and forcible sequestration against X. The magistrates therefore wished to framed the investigations of the gendarmerie differently, this will allow us to continue the technical investigations, the analyzes (DNA, digital), the hearings, the searches and to have all the prerogatives of investigation, “said the prosecutor in a press release.
16:24 – Its broken GPS watch
According to the Public Prosecutor of the Vienna, his mobile phone was still lit several hours after the disappearance, within a radius of 250 meters between the localities “Les Grands Ormeaux” and “The Salaud field”, in Voulon, but the calls remained unanswered. Her connected watch was broken and therefore not on the wrist of Agathe at the time of the facts. Without GPS watch in his possession, it is impossible for investigators to have access to the location of the young woman. Only the testimonies of residents help help them for the moment.
16:16 – The possible criminal track taken very seriously
If no track has been dismissed by investigators since the disappearance of Agathe near Poitiers last Thursday, a possible criminal track is taken very seriously by the authorities. For four days, 20 mobile gendarmes from Vienna have been doing battered to try to get their hands on the young woman, without success for the moment. To speed up the pace, no less than 70 additional men were dispatched to the site.
16:11 – An “ladle” individual near a wooded and isolated area
The race against the clock continues to find Agathe, 28, disappeared since last Thursday. Among the 90 reports made since the broadcast of the call for witnesses last Friday, a track is taken very seriously by the investigators: that of a bad meeting. Precisely, according to one of the reports, a witness was in the jogger’s racing area reports the presence of an “ladle” individual near a wooded and isolated area that the young woman could have crossed. No additional information has been transmitted to the behavior of this suspect.
11:25 – 90 reports made since the call for witnesses
This Monday, April 14, research to try to get their hands on Agathe, 28 years old, a jogger who has been missing since last Thursday is continuing. According to information from BFMTV, “90 reports were made after the call for witnesses last Friday”. In addition, a squadron of mobile gendarmes, around 70 men, will strengthen their 20 colleagues in Vienne who have been doing the searches unremitted since last Thursday.
08:51 – An experienced jogger who “knows the paths very well”
If she has not given a sign of life for 4 days, Agathe is described as an experienced runner who also practices trail. She frequented the running club “Vivonne Loisirs” again for about a year. “She really makes very long distances, paths, roads, woods. She knows the paths very well,” said the mayor of the town, Rose-Marie Bertaud, with Poitou. The young woman also said that she had resumed running in May in a message posted on her Facebook account, after “several years of stopping”.
08:37 – Research and auditions that are cleared
On Sunday, investigators seemed to focus their efforts on the multiple water points: “Aquatic surveys are conducted by the Arcachon nautical brigade”, said the public prosecutor of Poitiers in a press release. In addition, the environment of the young woman, especially close, has combed a fine: “New hearings of witnesses are underway, especially on the sentimental, family and friendly environment of Agathe Hilairet”, we learn. If “all the tracks to find this young woman are explored” adds Cyril Lacombe, the most serious – mentioned in the columns of the Parisian – leads to a bad meeting. The suspicious behavior of a person is mentioned in a testimony even if the information remains to be verified.
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Agathe, 28, has not given his life since she left her parents’ home, on the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2025 when she started jogging around 10:30 am. Not seeing her return, her father gave the alert and an investigation for “disturbing disappearance” was opened by the Poitiers prosecutor’s office, then a call for witnesses was broadcast by the gendarmerie. He describes a “anorexic” woman, she weighs 35kg for 1m65. A mention which was then modified, with the mention of a “very thin size”, without precision of its weight.
An important research device was deployed in the town of Vivonne at the end of the weekend, where Agathe was seen the last time. On the move in the Basque Country, the Minister of the Interior assured having “mobilized many means” to find the missing: “We are mobilized and the research is very active”. Up to nearly 200 people (gendarmes, firefighters or military) have been mobilized to crisscross the research area since Thursday.
A “wooded, very dense” research area
A helicopter with thermal camera, divers who probed the Clain north river south of the defined area and four dronists have been dispatched. Employees of the French Biodiversity Office (OFB) of Civil Protection Volunteers have also been mobilized, as well as members of the “Vivonne Loisirs” club where Agathe Hilairet is registered also betrayed for ratings. “They are used to the field, paths usually taken by Agathe, for us it is a huge added value,” assured the commander of the Vienna gendarmerie group “, for Poitou.
After having established a 100km2 research sector in a forest area south of Vivonne, research is now refocusing on “a small sector of around 3 km² around Vivonne” since Sunday. “It is an area particularly difficult to access with a lot of trails so you have to adapt the means” said Colonel Philippe-Alexandre Assou, who pilots research operations, with Poitou. Ratages have also been carried out on the usual joggist’s journey, but research is made difficult because of the “wooded areas […] very dense “.” Aquatic polls are conducted by the Arcachon nautical brigade “, specifies the public prosecutor of Poitiers in the columns of Figaro.
New auditions in its “family and sentimental environment”
The French Biodiversity Office and Civil Security also participated in the research as well as the jogger jogging club, which redid the journeys she used to make during her racing sessions. The analysis of the demarcation of his phone, which Agathe was running on the wrist, was also analyzed to trace his journey until his disappearance. In the morning of her disappearance, Agathe Hilairet was dressed “of shorts and a short short -colored handle. She had her hair attached and her phone hanging on her wrist,” said the public prosecutor of Poitiers. “All the tracks to find this young woman are explored” added Cyril Lacombe.
Since the dissemination of the call for witnesses, around thirty testimonies have been recorded and “nearly ten hearings of witnesses and relatives have been carried out by the investigators,” added the Prosecutor of Poitiers. New hearings of witnesses were underway on Sunday, “especially on the sentimental, family and friendly environment of Agathe Hilairet”, it is said. The information “is overcome with the elements from technical means (boundaries and relays)”, adds the prosecution. Agathe Hilairet’s mobile phone was located last time Thursday afternoon. He limited within a radius of 250 meters between the localities “Les Grands Ormeaux” and “Le Champ Salaud” in Voulon, a town 10 km south of Vivonne.
A track favored by investigators
At this stage, investigators favor the hypothesis of a bad meeting. A testimony evokes a person with the behavior deemed suspicious, but this information remains to be verified. According to Le Parisien, the suicide track, although not excluded, is not among the scenarios favored by the gendarmes. The daily life “does not evoke suicidal thoughts”, reading the young woman’s diary. The young woman is secretary in a social association in Poitiers and her latest recent internet research focused on finding a new job, says the Parisian.
Finally, the young women’s relatives also did not think of this hypothesis when a close to the file entrusted, always to the Parisian, that it would be surprising “to go run and decide to end her life after 10 km”. Investigators discovered clues in his accommodation seeming to keep the hypothesis of a planned fugue away, according to a source close to the AFP investigation. From now on, “all the hypotheses remain open. We study all the tracks, including the criminal one, obviously (…) We are on the broad spectrum of the hypotheses. And it is the work of investigation which will, at the end, guide the investigation”, abounds a source close to the file to AFP.