MALIK, MISSING SINCE FIVE YEARS: THE PAINFUL HOPE
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As if it wasn't hard enough already... The holiday season brings the same pain to Dalila, sister of Malik Boutvillain, every year." He always loved Christmas. And I've hated Christmas ever since he left."
Probably not as much as their mother, Badra." I'm Muslim and religious. I love all feasts. But it's over now. I don't bake cakes any more, for example: I don't have the taste, I have no more taste for anything, no more cravings. It's too hard..."
On Presidential Election Day 2012, Badra went to host a polling station. Her son Malik, who had returned to live at home (but was planning to take an apartment), was still at home when she closed the door of this warm Essarts home in Ville-Neuve in Échirolles. He wasn't there when she came back. "He left on foot, in shorts and T-shirt, without his papers or phone. Doesn't sound like someone who wants to start a new life!"
An unexplained disappearance, investigations that the family considers insufficient (no criminal investigation has ever been opened), no clues, no leads: Malik Boutvillain has evaporated. "It's the void," Badra sums up. "It's too hard to live with: five years of depression, denial... When I leave, as soon as I come back, I look if he's there: five years like that is too much."
In this daily life plagued by pain and uncertainty, there is now a tiny hope. Like eight other families in the region, also affected by unexplained disappearances, Malik's family has reacted to what is now known as the "Nordahl Lelandais case".
This Savoyard, indicted in connection with the disappearance of Maëlys in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, is also the number one suspect in the murder of Corporal Noyer in Chambéry. Hence imagining the disastrous journey of a serial killer..."We don't know. Everything is possible, Chambéry is not far away. The Malik investigation is officially closed, but when we saw the press conference about Corporal Noyer, we thought we were going to call the Departmental Security."
The police officer who followed Malik's case had the same idea as the family. "He told us that he passed his file on to Chambéry." Dalila does not hide from this fact: she hopes, finally, "the opening of a judicial inquiry. It would be a chance to have information."
Nordahl Lelandais crossing paths with her brother: a credible hypothesis?" Who knows who knows? We're lost, we don't know where to turn. Our life has become a big waiting room," Badra sums up. "We've been at the same point for five years now: nothing," Dalila adds. So, this investigation in Savoie is a way for them to make their fight alive. "The worst for us is forgetting. We don't want Malik to be forgotten."
Malik, that boy "so sensitive, kind, the person who would help everyone. The love of our life!" Malik, whose disappearance "eats their brains". Malik, his family is waiting." First we counted hours, days, months, and now years."
So, credible or not, the Lelandais development is a chance for them. That of knowing, finally. "Because we can survive anything. But not knowing is the worst part."
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note: I found this page via the webcache, apparently it should have been subscriber's only, don't know how long it will be available.
Le Dauphiné.com
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...ir+&cd=1&hl=nl&ct=clnk&gl=nl&client=firefox-b
As if it wasn't hard enough already... The holiday season brings the same pain to Dalila, sister of Malik Boutvillain, every year." He always loved Christmas. And I've hated Christmas ever since he left."
Probably not as much as their mother, Badra." I'm Muslim and religious. I love all feasts. But it's over now. I don't bake cakes any more, for example: I don't have the taste, I have no more taste for anything, no more cravings. It's too hard..."
On Presidential Election Day 2012, Badra went to host a polling station. Her son Malik, who had returned to live at home (but was planning to take an apartment), was still at home when she closed the door of this warm Essarts home in Ville-Neuve in Échirolles. He wasn't there when she came back. "He left on foot, in shorts and T-shirt, without his papers or phone. Doesn't sound like someone who wants to start a new life!"
An unexplained disappearance, investigations that the family considers insufficient (no criminal investigation has ever been opened), no clues, no leads: Malik Boutvillain has evaporated. "It's the void," Badra sums up. "It's too hard to live with: five years of depression, denial... When I leave, as soon as I come back, I look if he's there: five years like that is too much."
In this daily life plagued by pain and uncertainty, there is now a tiny hope. Like eight other families in the region, also affected by unexplained disappearances, Malik's family has reacted to what is now known as the "Nordahl Lelandais case".
This Savoyard, indicted in connection with the disappearance of Maëlys in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, is also the number one suspect in the murder of Corporal Noyer in Chambéry. Hence imagining the disastrous journey of a serial killer..."We don't know. Everything is possible, Chambéry is not far away. The Malik investigation is officially closed, but when we saw the press conference about Corporal Noyer, we thought we were going to call the Departmental Security."
The police officer who followed Malik's case had the same idea as the family. "He told us that he passed his file on to Chambéry." Dalila does not hide from this fact: she hopes, finally, "the opening of a judicial inquiry. It would be a chance to have information."
Nordahl Lelandais crossing paths with her brother: a credible hypothesis?" Who knows who knows? We're lost, we don't know where to turn. Our life has become a big waiting room," Badra sums up. "We've been at the same point for five years now: nothing," Dalila adds. So, this investigation in Savoie is a way for them to make their fight alive. "The worst for us is forgetting. We don't want Malik to be forgotten."
Malik, that boy "so sensitive, kind, the person who would help everyone. The love of our life!" Malik, whose disappearance "eats their brains". Malik, his family is waiting." First we counted hours, days, months, and now years."
So, credible or not, the Lelandais development is a chance for them. That of knowing, finally. "Because we can survive anything. But not knowing is the worst part."
Malik Boutvillain Born in Echirolles on 24 February 1980, Malik Boutvillain grew up in the Ville-Neuve district: Collège Jean-Vilar, Edison High School, where he studied electrical engineering. After living in the Ardèche for eight years, he returned to Échirolles in 2010. He lived with his mother until he could finance his own housing. Malik Boutvillain, diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007, was on a treatment that allowed him to be integrated." He was gentle and very sociable, everyone loved him,"says his sister. contact If you have any information about Malik, you can call +33 (0)6 03 62 46 64.
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note: I found this page via the webcache, apparently it should have been subscriber's only, don't know how long it will be available.