We still have no news of the young couple. A judicial investigation was opened on Monday after his mysterious disappearance more than a fortnight ago in Deux-Sèvres, the Niort prosecution announced in a press release. Leslie Hoorelbeke, 20, and Kevin Trompat, 22, have not given any sign of life since the evening of Friday, November 25, which they had spent with a friend in Prahecq, a town in the Niort area. The couple then had to spend the night in the neighboring house of another friend, who was absent.
The department’s gendarmerie had broadcast a call for witnesses on social networks last week which also mentioned the disappearance of Onyx, the young woman’s German shepherd cross dog.
The mystery deepens
“The multiple hearings and investigations carried out by the gendarmes of the Poitiers research section and the Niort research brigade did not make it possible to determine whether the young man and the young woman left voluntarily, whether they had a accident or if they have been victims of an offence”, writes the public prosecutor in Niort, Julien Wattebled.
Last Thursday, a new element came to thicken the mystery around their disappearance: the discovery, in a container of recycling of clothes, of “an identity document” of Kevin Trompat – his driving license – in the town of Puyravault in Charente-Maritime, according to the magistrate and a source close to the investigation.
The two vehicles of the missing were found in two different places: the utility of the young woman, self-employed in painting in the building, on the scene in Prahecq and the converted van of her friend in Coulon (Deux-Sèvres). Gendarmerie divers surveyed an arm of the river in this sector of the Marais Poitevin.
According to the forties friend with whom they had spent the evening, quoted by the Western Mail, the two lovers had left around 2:30 in the morning. They had spent a “quiet evening” and “played video games”.
The young woman’s cell phone would have stopped for the last time on Saturday noon in Niort, according to the parents of the missing woman, quoted by South West.