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This News was Posted on: 2005-10-16 22:49:47
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French envoy searches for missing lady
KOL Report
KATHMANDU, Oct 16 - French Envoy Michel Jolivelt along with a Nepali police team searched for a missing French lady in the Nagarjun Jungle on Sunday.
Celine Henry, 33, of France, who had come to visit Nepal, went missing on Sept 3 from the Kathmandu suburbs. She was staying at Pilgrims Hotel in Thamel.

The French ambassador accompanied the investigation team after the embassy today received an anonymous call stating that Henry was seen inside the jungle the day she went missing.

During the five-hour-long search, the police team recovered some ladies undergarments inside the jungle. Police are investigating the incident.

The French Embassy has already informed the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Immigration Department about the missing lady. (dds)

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Pessimisme sur le sort de Céline
Des sources policières népalaises évoquent désormais l'hypothèse d'un assassinat.

LUNEVILLE. - Daniel Henry, parti le 22 novembre pour rejoindre Katmandou, où sa soeur Céline est portée disparue depuis le 3 septembre dernier, a pris l'avion hier à 11 h heure française, et devrait être de retour à Lunéville cet après-midi. Il communiquait chaque jour avec sa famille par internet, les dernières informations parvenues dimanche à son épouse n'apportant pas d'éléments nouveaux.

Daniel Henry indiquait seulement que les enquêteurs allemands, qui s'étaient rendus au Népal après la disparition de Sabine Gruneklee, une jeune Munichoise de 32 ans, devaient prochainement quitter le pays, et que la commission rogatoire internationale, qui devrait permettre à la France d'envoyer des enquêteurs à Katmandou, n'avait toujours pas été validée par les autorités népalaises.

Une dépêche AFP datée du 12 décembre évoque pour sa part des propos de M. Ganesh, chef adjoint de la police de Katmandou. « Une fouille de grande envergure a été lancée pour localiser les deux touristes disparues, mais aucun des corps n'a été retrouvé et il n'y a eu aucune arrestation. L'affaire est très mystérieuse et nous essayons toujours de trouver des preuves. »

La police népalaise ne cache plus désormais craindre, que les deux jeunes femmes aient été assassinées « par la même personne qui aurait pris soin de dissimuler les corps. Nous sommes plus ou moins certains de la mort de la ressortissante allemande, car nous avons découvert certaines de ses affaires et retrouvé des taches de sang dans la zone, où elle a disparu », ajoute M. Ganesh.

L'inquiétude des proches
Ces taches de sang avaient été découvertes le 16 octobre en même temps que des indices « d'un apparent viol suivi de meurtre ». Les analyses ont confirmé qu'il s'agissait du sang de la jeune Allemande. « Sabine Gruneklee pourrait avoir été assassinée mais il faut encore une preuve solide pour en être absolument certain. »

Deux jours après son arrivée au Népal, Daniel Henry s'était rendu dans le parc de Nagarjun, où sa soeur a été vue pour la dernière fois. En s'écartant de quelques mètres d'un chemin balisé, son chauffeur avait mis la main sur le passeport déchiré de Céline, ainsi que sur une brosse à dents, un guide de voyage lui appartenant et les clés de sa chambre d'hôtel.

Le même jour, des photos déchirées de Sabine, la touriste allemande disparue, avaient été découvertes dans le même secteur. L'inquiétude grandit donc parmi les proches de la jeune Lorraine, née à Lunéville, qui enseignait depuis plusieurs années dans le Morbihan. Elle avait demandé un congé de disponibilité de 6 mois afin d'accomplir un chantier humanitaire. Partie le 23 juillet pour New-Delhi avec trois amies, elle avait rejoint le Népal, seule, le 14 août.


Catherine AMBROSI

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French Police search Nagarjun forest again

By Jitendra Sah


KATHMANDU, March 18 - Members of the French Police team that arrived here yesterday have started another search for missing French tourist Celine Henri Saturday morning.
French tourist Celine Henri and German Sabine Ursula Gruneklee went missing in the Nagarjun forest on Sept. 3rd and Oct. 15th respectively.

Although Gruneklee’s body was found in the forest a month ago, no traces have been found of Celine Henri. The French police have been searching and questioning locals with the help of a team from Valley Crime Investigation Section. According to security officials, the French team comprises of 6 members led by the Police Commissioner.

It is reported that the French team, that is going to be here for two weeks, will be working with Nepal Police on the case from different angles. According to a DSP, the team has searched the area from where Henri is suspected to be missing and has also questioned the locals. There hasn’t been any reliable finding till now, the DSP said.

The police had uncovered Gruneklee’s decayed body from the tightly guarded Nagarjun forest on February 11 – four months after she went missing – after being notified by locals. Gruneklee’s case hasn’t been solved yet while the French Police’s search for Henri has been fruitless till now.

After examining Gruneklee’s body for one and a half weeks, medical experts and the police had declared that she had been killed on the very day she went missing. French tourist Henri’s family had notified the Embassy in Kathmandu in October itself. Henri hadn’t been in touch with her family since Sept. 3rd. She had left all her belongings at Hotel Pilgrims in Thamel, where she had been staying, and set out for Nagarjun forest on the same day. A French investigation team led by Ambassador Michel Jolivett on Oct. 16 had uncovered some ornaments in the forest.



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Police on Thursday said they have found what could be the remains of a French woman who disappeared in a national park last year.
Celine Henry, 33, and from the Nancy area of eastern France, disappeared in September 2005 while on an outing in Nagarjun park near Kathmandu, a popular day trip for tourists and a training spot for trekkers and guides, the AFP reported.

"The team of police and army launched a search operation inside the park on Monday. Some skeletal remains were found on Thursday morning," said Pradhumna Kumar Karki, the deputy superintendent of police and head of the investigating team. He told AFP a sample of the remains would be sent abroad for DNA testing to see if they were of the French woman.

Sources close to the probe said that they believed the test would turn out positive. German national Sabine Gruneklee, 32, disappeared in the same area a month later. Her remains were found and identified earlier this year.

"A mushroom collector went to the French embassy early on Thursday morning saying that he had found some remains," a source close to the inquiry told AFP.
"French embassy staff immediately went to the spot and discovered a skeleton and women's clothing," he said. "At this stage before forensic examinations it seems obvious that this is the body of Celine Henry."

The personal effects of the two women, including a passport, credit card, bloodied clothing and a lock of hair, were found previously in Nagarjun.

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Nancy, France- A body found in a mountainous park near the Nepalese capital Kathmandu is almost certainly that of a 33-year-old French woman who vanished in the area in September 2005, the family's lawyer said Friday in the city of Nancy. "We are 99.9 per cent certain that the found body is that of Celine (Henry)," Thierry Moser said. "The body was clad in clothes belonging to Celine, particularly the sandals."

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