Police baffled how missing teen ended up in another country

A 16-year-old girl has left police baffled with how she ended up 800km from her home, with no recollection of who she is or how she got there.

A teenage girl who vanished in Germany was found 800km from home with no memory of who she was or how she got there.

Isabella O could not tell police her name when she was found wandering the streets in Paris, France, and she was not identified until two weeks later when a German police officer recognised her from a Facebook post, The Sun reports.

The 16-year-old is now being treated in a hospital near her home town of Celle, in Lower Saxony, and is reportedly not allowed to see her family.

Police say she is physically well but they do not yet know if she was the victim of a crime because of her severe memory loss.

Her dad Thomas O said he believes her blackout could have been triggered by the stress of the COVID lockdown.

“She was an exemplary student,” he told German broadcaster RTL.

“But maybe the brain switched to a kind of protection mode.”

Thomas added the memory loss is so complete she does not even remember her family and has no idea how she ended up in Paris.

Isabella O, 16, vanished from Celle, Germany, on March 22 and was found in Paris with no memory of who she was or how she got there. Picture: Newsflash/australscope

Isabella was reported missing on March 22, sparking a huge police search and social media appeals.

She had attended online lessons that morning but at noon her younger brother noticed she had left home without her keys, wallet and phone.

Police used sniffer dogs to trace her possible route through the town but the trail went cold at a shopping centre.

There was no further information for the next fortnight, leading police to warn she may have been kidnapped or violently attacked.

In fact, Isabella had been found in Paris the day after her disappearance.

Passersby reportedly found her in a confused state and took her to police.

Social workers put her up in a youth hostel before she was placed with a foster family.

According to reports, Isabella gave authorities in the French capital a different name and so they did not link her with missing child reports in Germany.

The breakthrough came on April 6 when French police revealed she may have been identified.

A worker at Germany’s Federal Criminal Police in Wiesbaden had noticed a “striking resemblance” between the girl found in France and a Facebook post by police in Celle.

Isbaella’s dad travelled to Paris to identify her, but heartbreakingly she appeared not to recognise him.

Isabella’s family had no news until she was identified from a Facebook post two weeks later. Picture: Newsflash/australscope

Blackout mystery

He told RTL she had to accept that he was her father, but still does not remember what happened.

She told him she woke up in Paris with no idea how she got there, and sought help from passersby on the street.

Thomas said he is relieved she his daughter is back in Germany and he hopes her condition will improve with treatment.

Doctors are said to believe an underlying mental illness could be behind the memory loss.

Thomas Dunning, chief physician of the Neurology Clinic at the Bremen-Ost Clinic, said finding out the trigger is the key task for her specialists.

He told RTL that lockdown stress was unlikely to be the sole factor, adding: “Probably there are psychological conflicts that were there before.”

Isabella is undergoing further medical examinations and is not allowed to see her family, her father said.

Police said they are closing the investigation in the absence of any clues to what happened to her.

They have tried without success to trace her 800km journey to Paris.

Police spokeswoman Brigit Insinger said: “It might sound strange, but that’s all for now.

“If Isabella remembers something and tells us that somebody did something to her of course we would reopen the case.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission