She disappeared on August 24, more than a month ago. Inna Ostapciuc was found safe and sound this Friday afternoon in Sevran, in Seine-Saint-Denis. This 43-year-old woman, suffering from cognitive disorders and originally from Moldova, had left her home in Saint-Pierre-Aigle, in Aisne, 70 km from the Parisian suburb. She had no longer given any sign of life.
“This is excellent news,” rejoices the Assistance and Search for Missing Persons (ARPD) Hauts-de-France association, which had been commissioned to search for her. According to one of the volunteer investigators, “it was a delegation of volunteers from Ile-de-France who located the missing woman after carrying out a field investigation and putting up posters, because the family was convinced that she had been able to go in Paris.”
Found on the street
Inna Ostapciuc, who arrived in France in 2016, had first lived in the Paris region with her family before moving to Saint-Pierre-Aigle in 2021. The forty-year-old was found in the street where she shared her daily life with a small group of homeless people. She was immediately taken to the hospital to undergo a follow-up check-up.
“We do not yet know the circumstances which brought her to Sevran,” underlines Me Damien Legrand, lawyer for the family. She is interviewed by the police to find out if she was not the victim of something during her journey. »
The Soissons gendarmerie issued a wanted notice for a worrying disappearance on September 10. “After an argument over a trivial reason, Inna’s mother went out for an hour to go shopping. When she came back, her daughter was gone,” a volunteer investigator told 20 Minutes.
Survey around stations
Certain ponds surrounding the town had been inspected and the gendarmes responsible for the investigation had tried to list the people who had traveled without a ticket on the day of his disappearance to the nearest station, in Soissons or Villers-Cotterêts.
“The reaction time was a little too long and the video surveillance images from these stations were no longer usable,” specifies the lawyer. A gendarmerie helicopter even flew over the area to find the trace of Inna Ostapciuc. The investigation remains open to try to find out how she could have ended up in Seine-Saint-Denis.