“I don’t think my mother will ever come back,” 61-year-old Xavier told the news channel France Info. He immediately realized that it was wrong when his elderly mother told about an Ivorian she had met on Facebook.
Frauder conquered the heart of Marie-José
At first the man acted as the French TV presenter Frédéric Lopez, but Marie-José did not fall for it; She soon discovered his identity fraud. Yet she continued to chat with the West African young man, who eventually managed to conquer her heart.
In September Marie-José traveled to her “lover” in Abidjan, a city on the southern Atlantic coast of Ivory Coast in West Africa. credit
In September Marie-José traveled to her “lover” in Abidjan, a city on the southern Atlantic coast of Ivory Coast in West Africa. To reassure her family, Marie-José said that Christ was a “good and caring man.” But her bank accounts were quickly looted. “They melted away like snow in the sun,” said Xavier, who confronted his mother with the editions. “I do what I want with my money,” was her reaction.
100,000 euros looted
According to Xavier, the amount has since risen to around 100,000 euros. Also the Ivorian internet scamer Being aiming for the life insurance policies of the elderly woman.
Marie-José, who became a widow three years ago, lived in Normandy to her sudden departure, near Rouen. “We were very close, we called each other every day,” said Xavier. His daughter, who lives in Paris, regularly visited Grandma and pointed him to the internet relationship that grandma would have with an Ivorian young man.
When Xavier visited his mother, she was constantly on her tablet to chat with the much younger Christ. “She seemed hypnotized,” said Xavier, who got a fight with his mother before she left for Ivory Coast.
Her sudden departure has destroyed a lot, says Xavier. “She is going to miss the wedding of her granddaughter of whom she loved so much. We are devastated. I think about it all the time, I am no longer myself.” The sixties is very concerned about his elderly mother, who suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure and uses a walking stick. At home she had a nurse who came by every morning with her, but she can’t rely on that in Ivory Coast.
Contact with mother is always going stiffer
To make matters worse, contact with Marie-José is always stiffer. In the last conversation “she even blamed us that we wanted to lock her up because my wife and I had suggested that she would move back to Dijon, near us, to a senior village.”
Against her loved ones who try to understand the situation, Marie-José stated: “I think I am old enough to arrange my own affairs. I’m tired of having to justify myself at my age […] I am attached to Christ, I have the right to be happy ”.
“How am I going to find her?”
Xavier fears that his mother will never return. He contacted the French embassy in Ivory Coast, but that was to no avail. “I am about to buy a flight ticket, but how am I going to find her once I get there?” The sixties wonders.
Two studies have been opened since September last year, “one for a disturbing disappearance, the other for fraud, but both ran out nothing,” said Xavier. In the meantime, a new investigation has been started by the Rouen public prosecutor’s office, the Attorney General Sébastien Gallois confirmed. The lawyer of Xavier, Nadège Fusina, hopes that this new procedure will “be successful”.