Overview
- Montpellier’s prosecutor reports that preliminary findings, reinforced by Thursday’s autopsy, indicate suicide and reveal no suspicious traumatic lesions, excluding a criminal act at this stage.
- The body of Maddy Giansili was discovered on February 10 in Frontignan’s Salins sector by a passerby, then examined on site before transfer to the Montpellier medico‑legal institute.
- An inquiry for researching the causes of death remains open under the Sète police, and further medico‑legal tests are planned as part of the ongoing procedure.
- Maddy had left home on February 3 to buy bread carrying only small change and leaving her phone, ID and handbag, prompting a police witness appeal and a community search.
- Surveillance showed her speaking with an unidentified woman near the bakery and reportedly heading toward the station, a line of inquiry investigators have since discounted, while another witness placed her with a backpack on a path toward the Salins the day she vanished.