VIDEO – Disappearance of Mélodie in Marseille: her family remains hopeful despite “total vagueness”

Mélodie Mendes Da Silva, aged 34, has been missing for two weeks.

On November 3, this mother of two children left her home in Marseille in the early evening and has not been heard from since.

In the “total vagueness”, her family and her partner are working to find her.

His face is everywhere in the streets of Marseille. Mélodie Mendes Da Silva, aged 34 and mother of two children, has disappeared for two weeks, without leaving any news to her loved ones. “We are in total limbo”, recognizes Edison Mendes Da Silva, her cousin with whom she grew up. He and other members of their family put up posters throughout the city to try to gather information that would help find the young woman.

It’s not his habit to run away

Patrick Mendes Da Silva, Mélodie’s brother

“I would like my cousin to return home, already in good health, to her children and her husband… If anyone had any information or anything, even anonymously, having information, it would help us a lot”hopes Edison in the TF1 8 p.m. report to be found at the top of this article.

Mélodie was last seen on November 3, around 6:30 p.m., as she left her home in the 4th arrondissement of Marseille. A little later, his phone rang a few kilometers away, in the 11th arrondissement, avenue Emmanuel Allard. For the moment, this is the last trace of the mother found by investigators.

For Pearl, her partner of 15 years, the young woman might have run away. According to him, Mélodie left, leaving her keys, her credit card, and even her identity card at her home. She would have been very affected by the death of her mother last month. “She closed herself off a lot, she wanted to be alone, she didn’t want to talk with people”says the thirty-year-old. “I saw his sadness over the death of his mother.“

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The young man and Mélodie’s family waited 48 hours before reporting the disappearance. Everyone believed she would come back. “It’s not his habit to run away”underlines his brother, Patrick Mendes da Silva.

Since then, the prosecution has opened a judicial investigation for “disturbing disappearance”. For their part, Mélodie’s relatives plan to gather this Saturday, November 18 in Marseille to look for the slightest clue or testimony that would allow her to be traced.