A blog has been set up so nobody 
forgets Estelle Mouzin who vanished without trace in January 2003 when she was nine years old. She was returning home from school in Guermantes, France, a village with a population of 1,392, near Disneyland Paris. She was last seen outside the bakery.
Despite a very high profile police search involving 450 officers and the arrest of dozens of suspected paedophiles, it does not appear that this case has been solved. The raids were believed to be the largest ever carried out in France against suspected paedophiles.
This is what a website for Estelle says:
On January 9, 2003, around 6 p.m., Estelle, young girl 9 year old, disappeared in Guermantes, in the Seine and Marne, on the way of the return of the School. Since this date, nobody has any more any news of it. Estelle association was created to give a support with his/her parents and to allow him to find its family and her freedom.
We refuse to let settle fate. We are determined and will put all in work, as a long time as it will be needed, to find Estelle. Support our association, join us in the action and fight together against the unacceptable one.
Rallies have been held on the anniversary of her disappearance to keep the search active, to keep her memory alive. Her father is haunted by the tormented cries of his daughter, you can read his interview in full in the comments.
In memory of those who are still missing.
A newspaper interview with Estelle’s father using an online French translation site:
�It is a block of deaf pain, a cluster of suppressed anger. Eric Mouzin makes very to contain the interior storm which agitates it. He is expressed with precision, of a slow voice, monocorde, intersected with silences. When the subject wounds, its face becomes grimaçant. Its lips outline a twisted and fixed smile. It can discourse a long time on the plan alerts removal, this device whose it preached creation before everyone and who was started this month by twice.
It is not �not easily deceived� political ulterior motives which can justify �its always not justified repetition�. But it is closed again as soon as it is questioned on itself or its close relations. It is only after one hour of maintenance that it evokes his daughter. That which haunts its nights, that whose voice resounds when a child shouts in the street, that which brutally makes feel its absence in front of a too beautiful landscape. �It is the first thing which I say myself: �It is not there to see that.� “ hen it walks, it feels the hand of Estelle in his. �They are at the same time strong and unbearable impressions. As when you awake in middle of the night while saying: �It is not possible, I made a nightmare with the idiot. Estelle is at side, all is well.� And then, not, not, it is not true.
You are sure that you will not fall asleep again any more.� Estelle Mouzin was seen for the last time on January 9, 2003 a little after 6 p.m., in front of the bakery of Guermantes, a village-dormitory for frameworks more or less sup, in Seine-et-Marne. 9 years old, it returned to foot every evening of the school. One kilometer to be traversed among the allotments. It disappeared in the last 500 meters. For the police officers, the most probable assumption is that of a “premeditated removal�. Since, more nothing. No the witness, not of trace, not of body, not of index, not really of track. Nothing, in spite of a colossal effort, interrogation of all the inhabitants of Guermantes and village close to Conches-on-Gondoire, of beaten organized by the army, the excavation of each house, the raids in the paedophiles mediums.
More than 150 people placed in, 32 mission police custody in province and 6 abroad, nearly 4 500 official reports. The vacuum on a side, the overflow of the other. The investigation gives the giddiness by its hugeness, its absence of result. �If anything had been found, one could channel his reasoning on something. There, it there has NOTHING �, exclaims Eric Mouzin. For four years, it has carried out a combat. Without aggressiveness, leaning sedentary, call with the denouncement. �It is a man of conviction, philosophically, against the death penalty, which seeks the truth and does not have desire of revenge\�, explains Bruno Bongapenka, his old companion and president of Estelle association dedicated to her daughter and to all the removed children (1).
As of the first weeks, it made placard thousands of posters in the stations, the subway, McDo, the town halls, on the périph… Each 9 January, goes back to disappearance, it organizes a walk until with the tree of the memory and the hope� planted in 2005 close to the residence of its ex-wife, Suzanne, with Guermantes. It went to Belgium, in the United States, to benefit from their experiments. It wants to challenge the candidates with presidential on his project of an ONG �which can be used as interface between the little child on his first bicycle. It repeats that his/her daughter died. �To think that Estelle will arise like that, one day, it is to manufacture illusions which place you in waiting and do not allow you to act to make move the things.� It refused that one artificially ages the face of Estelle on the opinions of research.
�It is as if one wanted to deny a certain reality.� The resurrection of Natascha Kampusch, eight years after, in Austria, was one difficult moment. �All the press tried to make it speak on top whereas all work in this type of situation is to accept mourning�, tells its lawyer, Didier Seban. He immediately suspected a �pédocriminel� when the investigators examined other tracks: running away, accident, parental removal. He was in authority of divorce. A clear rupture. �There is not any more any contact between us.� His wife, allemande, adviser in communication of a pharmaceutical firm, had the load of the two girls, Estelle and Lucie, elder the, old one today 20 years. Eric kept his son, Arthur, and lives with a new partner, in Yvelines. �I was considered rather quickly as… potentially suspect since one was within the framework of a separation. If I said to the police officers that they wasted their time by thinking that my daughter had made a silly thing, I played against me.
They would have thought that I tried to direct them towards another thing.� There was also its attitude which diverted until in the media. Its refusal to post its feelings, its decency which could seem coldness. �It is true that, consciously or not, I tried to play a technical register which leaves little place to the emotion.� Behind the mask, the suffering, as well as a �anger� against the dysfunctions of justice. By tracking Fourniret, the killer of the Ardennes, the Belgian police officers collected the testimony of the father of a young girl victim of an attempt at abduction. Its kidnapper corresponded to the identikit picture established in the Estelle business. An element remained unexploited. �Since, there is a will all to check�, explains to Me Seban.
Eric Mouzin claims months since that the file of procedure is transmitted to him, these �70 tons� of paperwork which should �have been digitized before becoming a mountain�. He criticizes the slowness of the investigation �which questioned the population of Guermantes only at the end of six months�, causing inaccuracies in testimonys and requiring complementary investigations. He tried itself to assist the police officers, with their downstream. At the point to plunge in darkness. It had launched a call in direction of the women of pédocriminels, by joining a toll-free number which led to its telephone line. �Each evening, I listened to horrors on the responder and after I recalled people to try to know if that had a direction or not.�
Stories of men and women “violated by their fathers, their mothers, their uncles, of the mutilations, the acts of cruelty. A nightmare “. Its step did not give anything. “It was a total dissatisfaction.” Expert in industrial risks near an international company of insurances, it never ceased working. “By obligation and then that makes it possible to think of another thing.”
Born in Rabat, in Morocco, of a teaching mother and an industrial father, it began its career as section engineer in the building. “I wanted to cover the world of roads and bridges.” Bruno Bongapenka describes it like “a builder”. But Eric Mouzin is taken by the doubt: “That made four years that one demene without any result. One could have gone back some to the investigators, with the destiny. Why do all that? Because it is the only possible demonstration of the love that I carried to Estelle.”
Ellee, don’t use online translation sites! Translation requires lots of work and cross-checking and is a very specialised field. You must have other commenters like me who are linguists and would be happy to help.
Another sad and moving case. I just don’t know how the families find the strength to go on.
It’s shocking that there are so many missing. Why is it we don’t hear of most of them?
Hi Elle, feel powerless on this one
Where are all the missing people?
and -Where do all the lonely people come from?
from – Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band
Ellee, that little girl looks so much like my Emily, it has shook me up a fair bit to see the picture, she’s here with me now, showing me her ‘moves’ from High School Musical. I’ll be holding her close tonight. All the best to you and continued thanks for such a thought-provoking blog.
Yes Linda, do give Emily an extra big hug tonight.
Our heart goes out to Estelle and her family as do our prayers.
john wearne
http://www.musicdownloadrevolution.com/missingchildren.html
Just wanted to ask an obvious question:- INTERPOL are they aware?