A body, whose identification is in progress, was discovered Thursday June 4 near the place of the disappearance of Lyhanna, the 11-year-old girl sought for six days in the Gers, according to a source close to the case. Lyhanna’s family has been informed, added this source, confirming information from RTL.
The Agen prosecutor, Olivier Naboulet, in charge of this case in which a 41-year-old man was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, is expected on site and could speak. The body was discovered by the gendarmes in the girl’s search area, in an agricultural factory, said another source close to the case, confirming information from Le Parisien.
Thursday, on the seventh day of the search, 170 gendarmes were again engaged and the gendarmerie called on volunteer riders from an equestrian center to inspect the wooded areas, south of Fleurance, the town of 6,000 inhabitants where the schoolgirl was last seen.
The disturbing profile of the suspect
On Wednesday, attention was focused on the profile of the suspect indicted for the kidnapping of the little girl, a father of two children who, before the disappearance, was the target of several reports and complaints, in particular for rape of a minor. The possibility of a dysfunction in the handling of one of these complaints led the government to announce the opening of an administrative investigation into the suspect’s background.
The Auch public prosecutor, Clémence Meyer, notably mentioned this procedure on Wednesday during a press briefing, initiated following a complaint filed on August 22, 2025 by the mother of a minor born in 2014, who denounced rapes committed “between September 2024 and May 2025 at the home” of the suspect. “This investigation was still in progress at the time of Lyhanna’s disappearance,” said the prosecutor, the suspect still not having been heard, nine months after the complaint was filed.
