Six years after his disappearance, the Mathieu Caizergues family is still waiting for answers. This Friday, June 23, it is exactly six years to the day since the 24-year-old mobile police officer disappeared during an outing at the Mafate Circus.
LP / Cynthia Véron • Published June 23, 2023 at 08:57, updated June 23, 2023 at 12:43
On June 23, 2017, Mathieu Caizergues went hiking at the Cirque de Mafate. Since then he has never given a sign of life. Exactly six years to the day after his disappearance, gray areas persist and his family is still awaiting answers.
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It is exactly six years to the day since Mathieu Caizergues, the 24-year-old mobile policeman, disappeared during an outing at the Mafate circus. His family is still waiting for answers
The 24-year-old mobile police officer had walked the trail connecting Roche-Plate to Ti-Col with two other men, a police officer and a police officer’s husband. After a break for lunch in a hut, they continue on their way, but the soldier disappears on the way back between Roche-Plate and the Maïdo summit, where he was supposed to join his two hiking companions.
For Delphine Caizergues, the mother of the missing police officer, it is a crime. Powerless and angry, she once again called for justice on Reunion Island. She is asking that the selfie her son sent on the day of his disappearance be analyzed by investigators.
Photo sent by Mathieu Caizergues to his relatives from his phone on the day of his disappearance • ©DP
Mathieu would have sent his relatives a photo of him with a bump on his forehead via the Snapchat social network at the end of the afternoon. “We can hardly make out his eyes open or closed, his words do not correspond to his usual vocabulary, he has a bruise on his forehead, the photo is framed so closely that we cannot see where it was taken,” says Delphine Caizergues .
For the gendarme’s mother, this photo would not have been taken of her son. “I don’t think he could have written a comment like that when he was injured,” she explains. “I don’t think he didn’t warn the people who were with him about that fall because it was still a major injury.”
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For Delphine Caizergues, her son’s disappearance was staged by the protagonists who accompanied her on the trail.
“The two protagonists were pretty good at covering their tracks, they knew what to do and what not to give people the impression that there might have been an accident,” assures Delphine Caizergues. Today we no longer believe in the thesis of the accident. We know the file is a hot topic that no one wants. It’s cop versus cop, except in the middle is a family that’s suffering.”
In 2018, Mathieu Caizergues was pronounced dead by the courts a year after his disappearance. In 2019, charges were brought against the two hiking guides for failing to help a person in danger.
The investigation is not yet complete. The family requests a reconstruction at the place of disappearance in the presence of all the protagonists present on June 23, 2017.
Six years after Mathieu Caizergues disappeared, all searches for him were unsuccessful.