He wanted to escape a police check but threw himself into a deadly trap. The body of the 17-year-old teenager who disappeared in early April in Strasbourg was found in the river in which he had plunged, we learned from the prosecution on Thursday. Enzo’s body “could be identified (…) thanks to his fingerprints”, the same source said, adding that his family had been notified.
According to the prosecution, his body was discovered Tuesday afternoon by members of the Civil Protection in the Ill, a tributary of the Rhine which crosses Strasbourg, a few hundred meters downstream from the place where he was supposed to have plunged. An autopsy was performed. The prosecution “is awaiting the results of scientific expertise”, in particular to determine the exact cause of death, it was added.
The young man, who was driving at night on Sunday April 2 with two of his cousins in a stolen vehicle in the neighboring district of the city of Ill, had fled to avoid a police check. “Despite the injunctions to stop”, he had jumped into the water to try “to reach the other shore” despite a “strong current”, had indicated in a press release the public prosecutor of Strasbourg, Yolande Renzi.
Complaint against X
The two other young people present in the vehicle, one adult, the other minor, had been placed in police custody, then released without prosecution. An investigation for disturbing disappearance had been opened. Divers from the fire brigade intervened the same evening, imitated by the river brigade the next day.
According to the regional daily The Latest News from Alsace, law enforcement and civil protection have also increased searches almost every day. Citizen battles on the banks of the Ill involving the teenager’s relatives had also been organized to try to find him.
The young man’s mother had also filed a complaint for “non-assistance to a person in danger” against X “but according to his statements aimed at the policeman who saw his son jump into the water without helping him”, according to Yolande Renzi. This complaint “has been taken into account, the investigation is ongoing”, it was indicated to the prosecution.