Helena Cluyou is dead. The confirmation arrived this Saturday, February 11, when the Brest public prosecutor confirmed that the charred body found this week was indeed that of the 21-year-old young woman, who disappeared at the end of January…
The charred body found Thursday in Argol, between Crozon and Châteaulin, in Finistère, is indeed that of Héléna Cluyou, the young woman who disappeared in Brest at the end of January at the exit of a nightclub. The Brest public prosecutor confirmed the information this Saturday morning, when there was little doubt that the charred remains were those of the 21-year-old nursing student.
Héléna’s body was found on Thursday February 9, during searches to find the young woman who had been missing since January 29. The judicial police of Brest, in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of the student nurse, had marked out a large search area south of the harbor of Brest after studying the last movements of the suspect. It was finally in Argol, a town located forty kilometers south of the prefecture of Finistère, that the body was discovered.
The autopsy carried out yesterday on the body of Héléna Cuyou “did not make it possible to determine with precision the cause of death”, specified the prosecutor Camille Miansoni. “We know that the body was burned after the death,” he said at a press conference this Saturday morning.
The mystery still remains whole about her disappearance from Héléna Cluyou and about what happened to her during the ten days during which she gave no sign of life. A vagueness that may never be clarified because the main suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of the young woman died in hospital on Thursday, February 9.
Where is the investigation into the disappearance of Héléna Cluyou?
The investigation into the disappearance of Héléna Cluyou, opened on the evening of January 29, is still ongoing but is progressing with difficulty. The only suspect was identified on February 4 and could not be questioned by the police because of his feverishness. The man, hospitalized after having tried to kill himself twice, finally died on February 9 without being able to be heard by the investigators. The judicial police only have the testimonies of the suspect’s brother and sister-in-law, who said that before attempting suicide the 36-year-old man admitted “having committed a mistake” by referring to the case of the disappearance of Héléna Cluyou.
Unable to question the suspect, the police made his phone speak by studying the last movements of the thirty-something. The examination allowed them to define a search area in which the charred body was found. To advance the investigation, the judicial police also have the suspect’s vehicle which was discovered completely burned and abandoned in a district of Brest. Charred, the car no longer presents as many potential proofs of the presence of Héléna Cluyou as it could have, but examinations had to be carried out.
However, it will be difficult to shed light on everything that happened between the morning of January 29, when Héléna Cluyou was last seen by CCTV cameras and the potential discovery of her remains 40 kilometers away. from Brest on February 9. The young woman was captured around 6:42 a.m., a little over an hour after leaving a nightclub, near a tram stop ten minutes walk from her grandmother’s house. This is his last sign of life.
In the Héléna Cluyou case, two tracks stand out. According to the police, the young student could have gotten into the suspect’s car, willingly or by force, and been kidnapped by the latter or could have been hit in a car accident. According France Blue And West Francethe hypothesis of an abduction is preferred.
Either way, the suspect and the car are involved. But no incriminating evidence was found on the car or in the suspect’s apartment during the February 7 searches. However, “technical findings could be made at the home of the person now suspected of having been involved in these facts, without it being possible to say at this time how or when”, said Camille Miansoni.
Héléna Cluyou, a 21-year-old student, disappeared on the morning of Sunday January 29, 2023, after spending the night with friends at “The One” nightclub in Brest. The young woman left the establishment, alone and after the departure of her relatives, around 5:20 am. In front of the club, Héléna Cluyou “was drunk but she was not drunk either. She was not pitching”, according to the testimony of the student who was the last to see the nurse in study with the Figaro. Héléna Cluyou, having run out of battery on her cell phone, asked the young man if she could borrow his phone to reach the friend with whom she was originally supposed to return. Not remembering the number, it was via the Instagram network that the student tried to reach her loved one at 6:02 a.m. and again at 6:04 a.m., on the initiative of the young man. Without a response from her friend and after a while of waiting, Héléna walked away towards the Kerbonne district, where she lives with her grandmother. The witness added that he stayed there for another ten minutes and had no one following the young woman on foot, while according to his memories only a few cars passed in front of the nightclub.
The last trace of Héléna Cluyou after this exchange is a video surveillance image taken at 6:42 a.m. in the Recouvrance district, west of Brest, near the Mac Orlan tram stop. The young woman appears alone with her coat just a ten-minute walk from her grandmother’s house. The rest of the student’s journey is still a mystery.
The main suspect in the case of the disappearance of Héléna Cluyou, identified on February 4, died on Thursday February 9. The 36-year-old man was between life and death and hospitalized since the beginning of February after having tried to commit suicide twice. These are the testimonies of the brother and the sister-in-law of the suspect who made it possible to identify him, the latter would have mentioned to them a “stupidity”, an “accident”, about the case “which we are talking about in Brest for five days”, according to the details of the public prosecutor of Brest, Camille Miansoni, on February 5.
According The Parisian, the suspect is 36 years old, simply known for business theft. He was “unstable, without limits when he was partying but not violent” explains an ex-girlfriend. Passed by the Foreign Legion before integrating the world of cooking, he worked in a restaurant near the club where Héléna Cluyou had spent the night before disappearing. The suspect was known to the Brest nightlife and would have toured the establishments the evening of the student’s disappearance without going to the One Club where he was “persona non grata” according to the manager of the box, Max Pellois, with of Ile-de-France daily.