Overview
- Authorities, which announced the plan Tuesday, will lead a large citizen search on Saturday, May 23, to widen the hunt around Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc after earlier warnings against unsanctioned efforts.
- Volunteers must register with the town hall by Friday at noon, must be at least 15 years old, will get the meeting point by email on Friday, and will search in set sectors under gendarme supervision with no on‑site sign‑ups.
- Manon Relandeau, a 31‑year‑old farmer and mother, vanished on March 27, and her family reported her missing on April 3.
- Her partner, Abdelkarim B., flew to Algeria with their child on April 2 and was detained there in late April, with French prosecutors probing suspected murder and kidnapping linked to her disappearance.
- Two people who worked with the couple—a taxi driver and a housekeeper—were placed under formal investigation, jailed for about two weeks, then released under judicial supervision in recent days.