By RFIPosted on 10-01-2020Modified on 10-01-2020 at 21:38

We now know a little more about the teenager found dead in the landing gear of an Air France plane. A macabre discovery made Wednesday morning at Roissy airport, near Paris. The plane in question had left the day before from Abidjan, in Ivory Coast. Investigations have been launched in both countries. We now know the identity of the victim.

His name was Laurent Barthélémy Ani Guibahi. He was 14, 15 next month. He was a 4th grade student at the Simone Ehivet Gbagbo municipal high school in Yopougon. And according to the staff of the establishment, he was a frail and discreet boy. An average student.

He lived with his father, a math teacher in another establishment, and remarried with a woman, vigilant of his condition, with whom relations were not easy. On Monday morning the day of the return to school, the young boy left the family home, but did not come to school and did not return home in the evening. Her parents worried, called the school, and posted her photo throughout the neighborhood.

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It was a bag found on the airport tarmac on Tuesday evening that allowed the investigators to make the link. A bag that contained the school uniform.

According to investigators, the teenager managed to climb the airport wall, then hid in a green space. Tuesday evening, members of an Air Cote d'Ivoire crew also reported the presence of an individual on the runway. But gendarmes and firefighters dispatched on the spot did not find it.

After sifting through the surveillance videos, the investigators noticed that the teenager had boarded the landing gear of the Air France Boeing when it made its U-turn before the end of the runway. lift-off.

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