The whole of Reunion Island will continue to be scarred by this heinous crime committed by two teenagers from the south of the island who set a death trap for the young girl who was supposed to celebrate her 16th birthday tomorrow. This Saturday afternoon it is time for reflection during his funeral, which takes place in Grand-Bois.
Written by NP – Saturday, September 23, 2023, 1:05 p.m., updated on Sunday, September 24, 2023, 11:15 a.m.
The young girl’s funeral took place this Saturday
The whole of Réunion today remembers this heinous crime committed by two teenagers. Nothing in their personal stories suggests that they would one day set a death trap for a young girl their age to kill her “to see what that brings.” Incomprehensible, shocking, unforgivable: The ambush, which a 14- and 16-year-old couple initiated via social networks, affected the little victim, who was supposed to celebrate her 16th birthday tomorrow.
After the horror, it is now time for Shana’s meditation and funeral on Saturday afternoon in the south of the department in Grand-Bois. “His neck bears the marks of strangulation. The prosecutor warned me. She told me she had never seen that before,” the victim’s father testified on the radio this morning. A father who struggles with his guilt, his pain shared by all the residents of Reunion Island, and his lack of understanding. Because Shana was a reserved girl who didn’t have many friends. But a few days before her disappearance, she had told her father that she had a new girlfriend and insisted on going to his home in St. Louis. “I hesitated. But every day she kept asking me to give her permission to go,” continues Shana’s father, worried and at the same time relieved when he learned that his daughter had finally met young people her age.
With no news of her, a disappearance alert was raised the day after her departure. While the victim’s mother traveled from mainland France, the two parents traveled through St. Louis in hopes of meeting their daughter. Shana was met by her new “friend” as she got off the bus. She then suggested he visit a “cool” place. In the disused buildings of the old Pierrefonds sugar factory, Shana and her “friend”, whom she had met on Instagram, were awaited by another miner. She died after being repeatedly stoned and strangled. The two alleged perpetrators left her to her sad fate and returned home to resume “a normal life”. The body was only found on Wednesday on the instructions of the suspected murderer.
Because thanks to the messages found on Shana’s tablet, the investigators were able to track down the two perpetrators, good students who were integrated into their respective institutions and who had deliberately planned their heinous acts. This Friday, the 14-year-old girl was charged with murder and taken into custody. His 16-year-old companion was hospitalized as his health gradually deteriorated during his hearings. He would soon be brought before the St-Pierre public prosecutor’s office and suffer the same fate as his co-author.