This Saturday, February 11, the prosecutor of Brest held a press conference to return to the disappearance of Héléna Cluyou in Brest. A charred body was found in a forest in Finistère last Thursday.
Thursday, February 9, a charred body was found on the site of the excavations carried out as part of the disappearance of Héléna Cluyou, 21, missing since Sunday, January 29, at 5:20 am. Since leaving the One Club, a nightclub in the port of Brest, and as she walked home to her grandmother, the young woman had not given any news. Sylvain L., a 36-year-old from Brest, the main suspect in this case, died in hospital on Thursday, the same day, after a double suicide attempt, without having been heard.
This Saturday, February 11, the Brest prosecutor held a press conference. She confirmed that the charred body found was indeed that of Héléna Cluyou. However, the autopsy, carried out on Friday, did not reveal the cause of death. “Other analyzes will be carried out,” added the prosecutor. “It could take weeks.”
He also reported that, on Sunday January 29, the day the victim disappeared, the meeting with the suspect must have taken place around 6:44 a.m. The following Thursday, Sylvain L. allegedly went to a gas station to buy 4 liters of gasoline. He would then have set fire to his vehicle on the night of Thursday to Friday. Héléna Cluyou “stayed in the trunk of the car”, according to the prosecutor. “It remains to be seen where the body was kept between Sunday 29 and the following Thursday”.
Another important data: according to the telephony study, Sylvain L. was in the same neighborhood as the victim, where the last image of Héléna was captured by the Brest tramway cameras. “To date, the investigation does not make it possible to determine whether the suspect and the victim knew each other, nor to establish possible complicity, declared the prosecutor.
The suspect had a clean criminal record, he also said, indicating that a procedure, closed without further action, for sexual harassment, had been opened in 2017.
Elsa P.