The investigation into the disappearance ofAnge-Antoine Agnettiwhich occurred on August 16 in the village of Campo, 37 km south of Ajaccio, has just changed course. The Ajaccio public prosecutor’s office opened this Thursday, August 22 a judicial investigation against X pour “arbitrary arrest, kidnapping and sequestration or detention without release before the seventh day”but also for *“*criminal association with a view to preparing a crime”. An investigating judge is now in charge of the case, Ajaccio deputy prosecutor Anthony Garcia told RCFM.
Ange-Antoine Agnettia 41-year-old restaurateur working in Ajaccio, has not given any sign of life since the afternoon of August 16. His family had told authorities that he had left “go fishing, hunting or for a walk” in the surroundings of this mid-mountain village. His car had been found near the territorial road (D83), with “the ignition keys on a wheel and his mobile phone in the passenger compartment”, according to a police source.
Hunts were immediately carried out by the villagers, under the leadership of the mayor, Joseph Quilici and relatives of the missing person. From Sunday morning, August 18, the day after his disappearance was reported, around twenty police officers had carried out land research, with in particular specialists from the high mountain peloton (PGHM) and a dog team but also aerialusing a thermal imaging drone and a helicopter. The villagers had also covered this heavily wooded micro-region.
“Numerous investigations have been carried out, such as searches, witness interviews, analysis of the vehicle,”had indicated the Ajaccio public prosecutor’s office. “The victim’s mobile phone was also searched to detect any trace of a possible meeting or of his last communications,” completes a police source. “Ange-Antoine Agnetti is not known to the justice system, but his environment is.”
