By the editor
HASToday, I just want us to find her so we can move on. Nearly three weeks after the disappearance of Lydie Lebas in Indonesia, for her daughter, Romy Vaniet, hope is no longer really allowed. “We are convinced that she drowned”, slice the eldest of the two girls in The voice of the North. Research was carried out at sea between the islands of Gili Trawangan and Gili Meno for a week to try to find the one who runs a restaurant in the seaside resort of Wissant, on the Opal Coast. The Mataram search and rescue agency started from the testimony of the young Frenchwoman to organize the search device.
If no one saw the boss of the Terrace enter the water or swim, for the young woman, there is no other explanation for her disappearance than drowning. According to her, several elements support this theory. “My mother is a heavy smoker, if she had wanted to walk around the island, she would have taken her pack of cigarettes with her. Another clue that seems to support the hypothesis of a swim that went wrong: the absence of shoes from Lydie Lebas. “The sand is so hot that it’s not possible to walk barefoot, even on tarmacked roads. »
If Romy Vaniet cannot say 100% that her mother went swimming, it is in any case the hypothesis that she favors. Today, the young woman wants only one thing: that the search be relaunched at sea so that the body of her mother is found. “Initially, we were told that the search was suspended because the weather was too bad and that it would resume. There was nothing new, so I called the embassy again. And I was told on January 2 that the drowning at sea was confirmed. Basically, in Bali, the file is closed. The young woman is now counting on the antenna of the judicial police of Coquelles which was seized of the file to start the investigation from scratch.
