With the man power and sought to 23-year-old student Julie: police distribute images important witness

With man and power was there last weekend searched for Julie Of Espen. The 23-year-old student from Schilde disappeared Saturday night when the bike was on the way to friends in Antwerp. Yesterday there were a few pieces of clothing from the young woman recovered. That contain traces of blood, which the prosecution suspects that she was murdered. Around half past two at night gave the public prosecutor of Antwerp still images free of an “important witness”, with the question to report. The police search continued today.

“Nearly three hours after her departure I received a message from one of her friends: Julie was never in Antwerp arrived,” said Erik Van Espen, the father of Julie, yesterday on the regional tv channel ATV. There was immediately to raise the alarm, because something had happened. The bike ride took normal within a half an hour to complete, and the probability that Julie deliberately had chosen to disappear, was immediately excluded by its parents.

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Together with dozens of family members and friends pulled Erik Van Espen and Kaat The Wild yesterday of door-to-door with a photograph of their missing daughter: “good afternoon, sir. You have our daughter seen?”. Their opsporingsbericht on Facebook at that time was already 150,000 times shared, and also the call of Julies friend Thomas Huyghe had a lot of people on the streets brought to help search. With the courage of despair they moved through the streets around the place where the gsm signal of the student was last picked up. "With each hour that passes, we know that the chance of a good outcome in trade. But we keep searching. With at home sit brooding in the seat, we would certainly not return."