- Eloi Rolland, a young 18-year-old student from Montpellier disappeared in New Zealand on March 7 while on a language trip.
- His relatives cannot go there because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused all international flights to stop.
- His cousin Ségolène, a nurse, raises a cry of alarm and requests the help of the French authorities to try to find him.
"We need the French authorities". Ségolène Rolland is calling for help. The cousin of this young nurse disappeared in New Zealand in early March. The trace of Eloi, a young Montpellier 18 year old on a linguistic trip, gets lost on March 7 in the early morning.
Images from video surveillance cameras clearly distinguish him in a deserted station in the district of New Lynn. Slender, he is dressed in a blue and white jacket, a black backpack, and jeans. An hour earlier, other images show him taking the train to Auckland.
At 9:18 a.m. on March 7, his cell phone definitely stops
The New Zealand investigators know that the young man walked ten kilometers on Piha Road, towards a beach known for its surf spots. A place he had visited in the past. And then nothing. Her cell phone definitely stopped at 9:18 a.m. Since then, no one has heard from anyone…
"We are in regular contact with a local Auckland police sergeant," continues Ségolène. The New Zealand authorities told us that they had asked the French authorities and Interpol to help them. But because of the coronavirus epidemic, they were turned down. In Montpellier, Eloi's mother wrote to Mr. Macron. A senator from Hérault replied that a conference call would be organized, but we never got back. "
Homesick
Blocked in France due to the coronavirus epidemic and the impossibility of traveling to New Zealand, the family follows the investigation carried out by the local police. Unsuccessful so far. “We are extremely worried. He had never left the house and he always kept in touch with his family, said Aurore, his sister, to the New Zealand media Stuff. "He called them every day," confirms Ségolène.
The young man from Montpellier had been in New Zealand for six months on a language trip. But it seems that homesickness had caught up with him. He had decided to return to France prematurely on March 21, two months before the date originally scheduled. "We had advanced his return expressly because he had told us about his desire to return."
Fear of a bad meeting
It was his host family who warned the police, not seeing him return on the evening of March 6. He had taken some belongings and changed his Facebook cover photo, replacing it with a black screen. The young man had gone through a complicated period. "Of course, we can't ignore anything. We thought that maybe he wanted to slip away, take a step back, Ségolène continues. We thought of the worst. But his return to France was imminent, he had plans when he returned. It is not logical ".
At Stuff, his sister Aurore explained that he was like all adolescents, sometimes plagued by moments of doubt. But that he was absolutely not suicidal. Relatives do not believe in this thesis. "The New Zealand police have put a lot of resources into finding, with dogs, master rescuers, helicopters ... It would inevitably have been discovered if it were close to this road," continues Ségolène. "A month and a half after his disappearance, we tell ourselves that the most probable hypothesis is that he had a bad meeting".
Blocked in France, Eloi's family can only wait for international flights to resume and the borders to open. And the help of the French authorities.
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