While Natacha’s parents traveled to Peru to carry out a DNA test, the Peruvian daily The Republican indicates that several Belgian police officers are about to arrive. ” No, that is not true. I have not been informed of anything, retorts Alain Remue, from the missing persons cell at the federal police. He does not “No decision has been taken at the moment and there is no need to send Belgian police on the spot. Currently, the case is being handled very well by our Peruvian colleagues.”
The day of her disappearance, she had left a backpack in her hotel room in Cabanaconde, a small village perched at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters in the Peruvian Andes, before leaving alone, on January 24 around 5 a.m., to contemplate the Colca Canyon, one of the deepest in the world.