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		</div><h6><strong><span style="color: #4f3434;">Samba Widhyastuti from Sydney, Australia was arrested in Paris on November 28</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4f3434;">Widhyastuti, 59, is charged with kidnapping her 25-year-old boyfriend who mysteriously vanished from a hotel three years ago</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4f3434;">Her ex-beau, Frenchman Florent Gregoire, who is 30 years her junior, has been missing since 2016</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4f3434;">Widhyastuti met the farmhand in France that summer before they embarked on a months-long vacation, traveling around Spain and Andorra </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4f3434;">Gregoire has not been seen since Sept 23, 2016 after he was believed to have checked out of a hotel in Andorra </span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-339858" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Samba-Widhyastuti-right-with-Florent-Gregoire-2.jpg" alt="Samba Widhyastuti, [right] with Florent Gregoire 2" width="601" height="969" /><br />
Samba Widhyastuti, [left], from Sydney, Australia then aged 56 had been in a relationship with 25-year-old Florent Gregoire [photo, left], from Nantes, who has been missing since 2016</span></strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A woman from Sydney, Australian has been arrested in France over the disappearance of her much younger lover who has not been seen in three years.<br />
Samba Widhyastuti, 59, was charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment after she was detained by French police at Charles de Gaulle airport last month.<br />
Widhyastuti who was a long-term Sydney resident, had been in a relationship with a Frenchman, 30 years her junior. Florent Gregoire, from Nantes, was 25 when he went missing in 2016.<br />
The young man was last seen checking out of The Roser Hotel in Andorra, where the couple were staying in September 2016, and is now believed to be dead.<br />
Police allege Widhyastuti contacted his family to inform them he was fine and accuse her of posing as Gregoire in emails to them.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-339854" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Florent-Gregoire-1.jpg" alt="Florent Gregoire 1" width="584" height="763" /><br />
<strong>Missing, presumed dead: Florent Gregoire [photo], is believed to have checked out of an Andorra hotel on Sept 12, 2016, never to be seen again </strong></span></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The pair had met in France, where Gregoire was working on a farm, before embarking on a months-long vacation, travelling around Spain and Andorra that summer. </span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">On September 12, 2016, Gregoire checked out of the hotel with a bus ticket to Toulouse, France, but was never seen again. </span>It is not been ascertained that he even boarded the bus.<br />
His family grew concerned after he failed to show up to a family wedding that month.<br />
They finally traveled to Andorra in October to meet with Widhyastuti, who allegedly told the family she returned to their hotel room one day to find Gregoire had left.<br />
She also said she had found traces of blood in the sink &#8211; a claim hotel staff could not confirm.<br />
A hotel manager told the publication the two appeared to be a &#8216;normal couple&#8217; who were often seen going out in hiking gear.</p>
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A manager at the Roser Hotel in Andorra, [photo], said the the pair off Widhyastuti and Gregoire appeared to be a &#8216;normal couple&#8217; who were often seen going out in hiking gear</span></strong></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">&#8216;The woman would talk to me using a translation app on her phone. But it was usually just to say hello or something like that. She spoke in English to the man,&#8217; the manager said.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Police did not regard Widhyastuti as a suspect in the initial stages of their investigation concluding that Gregoire had left on his own volition after a bus company confirmed he had bought a ticket to France.<br />
</span>However, after the Gregoire&#8217;s parents went to police with their concerns, authorities made the decision to detain Widhyastuti next time she returned to France.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-339867" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Samba-Widhyastuti-5.jpg" alt="Samba Widhyastuti 5.JPG" width="673" height="533" /><strong>Widhyastuti [L-R], has been charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment after she was detained by French police </strong></span></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The pair had met in France, where Gregoire was working on a farm, before going on a months-long holiday around Spain and Andorra that summer. Widhyastuti was charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment after she was detained by French police at Charles de Gaulle airport last month </span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The suspect, Widhyastuti, had previously lived in Cammeray, just outside Sydney with her ex-husband and child, according to reports, has been locked up in a French jail since November 30. Her lawyer told French media his client did not have any previous convictions and the experience has been very &#8216;painful&#8217; for her.</p>
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59-year-old Aussie woman, Samba Widhyastuti, charged with kidnapping her 25-year-old French boyfriend who mysteriously vanished from their vacation hotel three years ago
