Overview

• Barbereau disappeared on May 11 from Reventin-Vaugris and his BMW motorcycle was recovered five days later at a hiking trailhead near Doizieux
• His sister Noémie mobilized over 1,600 volunteers and led a 200-person dragnet before suspending civilian searches upon learning of the accusations
• Two separate complaints filed February 3 in Blois and Chartres by former judo students accuse him of rape and sexual assault when they were underage
• Shortly before vanishing, Barbereau sent final coursework to his philosophy students and informed them he would not return to class, suggesting a planned departure
• Gendarmes of Saint-Clair-du-Rhône continue a reduced-scale inquiry that now spans his disappearance and the probing of the sexual assault claims