Disappearance of Erwan Blais: searches extended, his family speaks

Four days after his disappearance in Deux-Sevres, Erwan Blais, 18, remains untraceable. The research is expanding.

The search has continued since Sunday and the disappearance of Erwan Blais. An investigation into "disturbing disappearance" was é opened by the Niort public prosecutor's office. À At this stage, still no lead is privileged. The authorities launched Monday 12 fé issue a wanted notice after the disappearance of the 18-year-old. He was é seen &agrav; the exit of a nightclub called La Morinière à Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre, in Deux-Sèvres, on the night of Saturday à Sunday around 2:30 a.m. Investigators indicated that this is the last place where his phone would have been damaged. geocalis.

Tuesday February 13, the search accelerated, reports BFMTV, according to who a drone as well as divers were mobilized. The news channel also reports that the number of gendarmes mobilized for the case has been increased. multiplied by three. Thus, while around twenty gendarmes were in place Tuesday morning, no less than 63 were on the bridge in the afternoon , specified in a press release of the public prosecutor. But research has à new summer vain.

This Wednesday, the gendarmes are continuing the search, particularly in the Pescalis park in Moncoutant-sur-Sevre, which is none other than the largest park in Nature and fishing activities in Europe. It is locatedé not far from the nightclub where was é last seen alive for the last time Erwan Blais this weekend. The park has been renovated. closed to the public for the day. The authorities have also expanded the search area. Indeed, Vendée is now part of the investigations.

According to BFMTV, the young man lefté the discotheque where he was partying with his friends around 2:30 a.m. He would have beené put &agrav; the door by security guards after a "non-serious" incident. He would then appear in CCTV footage from the nightclub. “We see him crossing the nightclub parking lot, then more nothing &agrav; “because of a spotlight which dazzles the camera,” explained her mother-in-law Karine to her husband. the news channel, specifying that Erwan is a rather balanced teenager, comfortable in his sneakers, with a classic life of a young person continuing his studies. He's a young man like so many others." In any case his phone would have stopped. broadcast around 2:50 a.m.

Auprès de Ouest-France, a friend of Erwan Blais, who was with him on the evening of the disappearance, also returned to the events. Assuring that the young man has not arrived drunk in a nightclub, but that he had, like him, "simply a little drunk", he confided s'' Be, during the evening, separated from each other. of him going to see other friends. It was only at the end of the evening, when the nightclub emptied, that it would have been reported his absence. This would be followed by numerous searches in and around the nightclub, without success, before a call to the police. the gendarmerie.

A track leading à a studied parking lot

The track of a parking lot was created. mentioned by the investigators. "We have achieved" a tracking Sunday and Monday with two dog teams, which take us to the same place, at namely the parking lot of the restaurant Le Saint-Pierre", thus revealed the gendarmerieé nbsp;à our colleagues from 20 Minutes.

But this path remains fragile. Once we arrived at the parking lot, "we lost track of the young man”, said this same source. According to the daily, it is in this parking lot that Erwan would have parked his car. his vehicle before going, to on foot, in the nightclub, located next door. 500 meters from there. A helicopter therefore arrived. missioned by the police. Objective: "fly over road shoulders, in case ù the young man would have beené hit by a vehicle,” said the gendarmerie, which however indicates that this “did not result in anything.” . Ponds in the surrounding area as well as the S&evre Niortaise have also been restored. surveyed by a nautical brigade. 

The family increasingly worried

The young man's family opened a Facebook page dedicated to his research allowing &agrav; Anyone who has information can share it with us. the family and the authorities. In a Facebook post, the sister of the deceased specifiedé that Erwan was wearing "black jeans, a dark green Nike sweatshirt, black and white sneakers" at the time of his disappearance.

Her mother-in-law Karine, deeply distraught, confided in her from BFMTV. Despite Despite her worry, she keeps hope and continues the fight: "It's vital, we can't even imagine sitting still at the table. to wait for. We try to find something, the slightest element. "If we had hope, we stop everything, we collapse”, she adds with emotion.  The family would imagine "everything that could have happened to him, whether it was the accident, the bad encounter, whether he was stuck in a car , stuck, injured somewhere, he can't get around, his cell phone is broken, we consider everything and its opposite.