The body of a 19-year-old student who disappeared last Friday was found and identified on Saturday. While the young woman’s route is questionable, a man with a pickaxe was identified by witnesses in the woods.
The lifeless body found in the Bois de Boulogne on Saturday, September 21 has been identified. It is that of Philippine Le Noir de Carlan, 19, a third-year student in economics and financial engineering at Paris Dauphine University. “The victim was formally identified late in the evening,” this Sunday, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to the Parisianparticularly thanks to the chain around her neck and the clothes she was wearing. An investigation has been opened for voluntary homicide.
On Friday afternoon, the student had left the University around 2 p.m., after having lunch at the Crous. She was supposed to go to her parents’ house in Yvelines, in Montigny-le-Brotonneux. That was the last time she was seen. When her parents noticed that their daughter had not arrived, they tried to call her, without success. The young woman’s sister was the first to raise the alarm that same evening, at around 11 p.m., by going to the police station in the 16th arrondissement of the capital. A procedure for a worrying disappearance was then opened.
Concern quickly grew among her loved ones, Philippine was not in the habit of remaining unreachable for very long. Her phone was last detected in the Bois de Boulogne. A search was then organized at 3:15 p.m. on Sunday to try to find the missing young woman. Nearly fifty people lent a hand to the family by going to the scene. Her phone was first found, before the discovery of the body, “about 20 meters from where the device was discovered, behind a mound,” Le Parisien said. At 4:50 p.m., Philippine’s body was found, partly buried, near a hiking trail. “The young woman is said to have multiple injuries,” the media outlet said.
Man with pickaxe seen by witnesses
Now, a question must be answered: what was Philippine Le Noir de Carlan doing behind her University when she was supposed to go to her parents’ house in Yvelines? Indeed, the RER station and line C that the student was supposed to take are “on the other side”, explains Le Parisien. An autopsy was carried out and“The conclusions of this examination, which will have to be confirmed by other examinations and expert reports, have not been communicated at this stage,” the public prosecutor’s office told the daily. An investigation for voluntary homicide has been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the criminal brigade.
For the time being, no arrests have been ordered, according to information gathered by BFMTV. According to people close to the investigation with the continuous news channel, the geolocation of Philippine’s phone is already guiding the investigators’ searches. The hearings are continuing, and the relatives who participated in the searches on Saturday should be heard in particular in the premises of the criminal brigade. And according to information from the Figarowitnesses reportedly saw a man wearing a surgical mask and carrying a pickaxe heading towards the lake in the Bois de Boulogne. The “brown-haired individual, about 1.80m tall” could be a lead for investigators. A minute of silence will be held this Monday, September 23, in the ground floor lobby of Paris Dauphine University at 1:30 p.m. to honor the memory of Philippine Le Noir de Carlan.