France has a large number of Japanese cultural enthusiasts. Japanese animation is considered a hero, accompanied by the youth of several generations. Therefore, France is one of the largest importers of Japanese comics.
It is said that Hayao Miyazaki’s "Spirited Away" made many French children unable to extricate themselves, so that the old man publicly said that his work is enough to watch once or twice a year, worrying that young people are living in a fantasy world Can't get out.
In addition, sushi and Japanese tourism are both hot spots in France. In short, I love everything in Japan.
Among the Hari people, a woman named Tiphaine Véron mysteriously disappeared. The incident once alerted the heads of state of France and Japan.
A few days ago, the case has been updated.
We know that Japan's public security situation is not only ranked first in Asia, but also among the best in the world. How can a big living person disappear out of thin air? What happened?
Time goes back to the end of July 2018. Tiffana, then 36, set off from her hometown of Poitiers for a trip to Japan and lost contact and never returned.
Poitiers is located in the west of France, more than 340 kilometers from Paris, with a population of less than 100,000.
Tiffana is passionate about art and foreign languages, and has studied Japanese and Russian. Occupation is a teaching assistant to care for disabled children.
In 2013, she traveled to Japan to enjoy Tokyo. She had a perfect impression of Japan and believed that Japanese people are very friendly and kind, which led to her second trip to Japan in 2018.
In order to learn more about Japanese culture and have fun, this time Tiffany prepared for a long time. Self-study Japanese, research strategy, plan to stay for nearly 3 weeks.
The route she made is roughly: Tochigi Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture, Kyoto. Returned to France on August 14.
It is worth mentioning that Tiffana has a history of epilepsy and needs to take medication on time. For this reason, she also indicated the medical insurance card information in bilingual just in case.
On July 27th, Tiffana arrived at Narita International Airport by plane. She stayed at a hotel near the airport and sent a message to her family excitedly: Japan has not changed, but it is still perfect!
The next afternoon she arrived in Nikko City in the northwest of Tochigi Prefecture, which is a tourist attraction that is popular with tourists from home and abroad.
After walking around at about 4 o'clock, she checked into a small local hotel, which is only a 10-minute walk from Nikko Toshogu Shrine. Tiffany plans to stay for 2 days, and she also ran into other French tourists.
On the morning of July 29th, Tiffana had breakfast with several European tourists chatting and laughing. She happily shared her travel strategy with everyone.
At that time, there were tourists who photographed her casually.
After eating breakfast, she set off, who knows she never came back...
On July 30, the next morning, the boss saw that Tiffana had not returned all night and hurried to call the police. On August 1, the police officially launched an investigation and contacted the French Embassy, which notified Tiffana's family.
The police found that Tiffana's phone and wallet were not there, so they must have taken it out. The luggage is left in the hotel, which contains passports, French specialties, tourist brochures, pills, etc.
On the day of her disappearance, she was wearing a white sleeveless top, trousers, blue raincoat and backpack.
Although the cell phone was taken away, the police found that it didn't take long for Tiffana to leave the hotel. The surveillance captured the last scene of her entering and leaving the supermarket.
August 4th,Tiffany's brothers and sisters rushed to Japan collectively. Two weeks later, my mother also rushed over and wrote to French President Macron for help.
During the entire investigation, the police visited the households, collected dozens of surveillance videos, dispatched helicopters and drones, and 1,500 police officers to conduct a large-scale search, but nothing was found.
The media of the two countries also reported the incident.
Among them, the French media expressed their feelings that the two countries' handling methods were quite different: Upon learning that Tiffana was missing, the hotel directly cleaned her room, destroying the clues that might have been left.
This approach made Tifana's family quite surprised and dissatisfied. They believed that no matter what the nature of the incident, the scene should be protected and left to the police for investigation.
Someone suspected that Tiffana committed suicide, but her family denied it immediately: Tiffana was not bothered, and it was too late to come to Japan to have fun. The follow-up route hotel has been booked and it is impossible.
On the day of her disappearance, she planned to visit many attractions, including shrines surrounded by woods, and there are notices reminding them: Recently, there have been frequent incidents of scammers pretending to be shrine guides and behaving inappropriately to tourists. Please be careful.
Witnesses said that Tiffana saw a suspicious blue vehicle at the shrine on the afternoon of her disappearance, greeting tourists to get on. The elder brother thinks it is possible that Tiffana got in the car and was abducted because the younger sister thinks that the Japanese are very friendly and unsuspecting...
In addition, there is a river near the hotel. The police searched for a long time. This ruled out the possibility of drowning being impulsive.
The case fermented France and affected everyone's hearts.
On October 17, French President Macron met with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At the same time, Tiffany's sisters also came to the Elysee Palace and asked the two heads of state for help.
Under the encouragement and recommendation of Brother Xiao Ma,Prime Minister Abe promised her that Japan would try its best to find Tiffana.
Since then, Tiffany's brother has traveled to Japan many times to find his sister and posted a large number of missing persons notices. Strangely, the missing persons notices near the shrine were almost torn up maliciously. Could this be done by the murderer?
In May and August 2019, the two scheduled searches were fruitless.
According to the latest news this month, a barrister and a famous detective have decided to investigate. May Tiffana go home soon.
Ref:
https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/asie/disparition-de-tiphaine-veron-l-enquete-repart-au-japon_2143657.html
:// france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/vienne/poitiers/jean-francois-abgrall-pas-contre-enquete-co-enquete-disparition-tiphaine-veron-1916094.html
https://fr.wikipedia .org/wiki/Affaire_Tiphaine_V%C3%A9ron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBLrhedqlCY
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