Chloe, 20, was finally found alive and well. Originally from Dammartin-en-Goële, in Seine-et-Marne, the young woman disappeared on Friday when she went running in the early morning. Not seeing her return, her mother gave the alert and an investigation for worrying disappearance was opened by the prosecution. About 100 gendarmes were deployed to search for her, along with dirt bikes, a helicopter, a drone and horsemen, to explore a large wooded area. Several hundred residents also participated in a search on Saturday. Chloé was finally found safe and sound in the neighboring department of Marne, Saturday at midday, in the company of a boy with whom she had left of her own free will.
Being of legal age, “she thought that the research system was going to be lifted”, declared to AFP the public prosecutor of Meaux, Jean-Baptiste Bladier. “As she is consenting, the procedure for worrying disappearance has been terminated,” added the magistrate. While significant resources have been deployed to search for her, does the young woman risk trouble with the law? “No, there will be no prosecution”, indicates to 20 minutes a source familiar with the matter. “It was not her who triggered the rescue but her mother, who did not know that it was a voluntary departure on the part of her daughter. There is no intentionality, ”said this source.
Free rescue
This was not the case for the 17-year-old jogger who disappeared in November 2021 in Mayenne. The teenager, wanted by around 200 gendarmes, had admitted having lied by initially indicating that she had been abducted by two individuals in a van. In reality, she had run away and spent the night in her grandmother’s home in Sablé-sur-Sarthe. The public prosecutor of Laval, Céline Maigné, had indicated that the young woman would be the subject of a procedure for “denunciation of an imaginary offense”, an offense punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 7,500 euros. .
In these two cases, there is nevertheless a common point: neither of the two young girls will pay the bill for the research undertaken. Still in force, the royal ordinance of March 11, 1733 imposes free relief. Its aim was to prevent fire victims from giving up calling for help, at the risk of seeing the fire spread. This principle of free access has been regularly questioned, in particular after certain abuses which have been publicized.
In August 2013, two couples who practiced canoeing in the Gorges du Verdon abandoned their boat without telling the rental company. Consequences: important means were deployed to find them. The cost of the research was estimated at 65,000 euros. A sum that they will not have had to pay. “We are at the service of our fellow citizens and we owe them help and assistance,” said Danielle Drouy-Ayralthe public prosecutor in Draguignan.