Kevin Trompat had nearly 10,000 euros in cash on him, the evening of his disappearance, at the end of November, in Deux-Sèvres, with his girlfriend Leslie Hoorelbeke, according to his mother-in-law.
He had to buy a vehicle, according to the words of his mother-in-law, who organized a search to find the couple on Thursday.
As the investigation continues, the relatives of the disappeared lean towards "a bad meeting".
The mystery surrounding their disappearance remains intact.
Kevin Trompat had nearly 10,000 euros in cash on him the evening of his disappearance at the end of November in Deux-Sèvres with his girlfriend Leslie Hoorelbeke, his mother-in-law said on Thursday during a search organized for try to find the couple.
A planned car purchase
The latter, Karine Prat, says that on November 25, the evening of the events, she came to see her son-in-law in Prahecq, a town in the Niort countryside where the couple had planned to spend the night in a house lent by a friend, to "bring him things he needed, a sum of money also to buy a car".
"He had almost 10,000 euros on him," said this woman to the press, shortly before the hunt which proved unsuccessful.
That evening, she says she also “looked for the papers” before buying the vehicle, for which the young man had “an appointment in Bordeaux” soon, according to her.
According to Karine Prat, a man also came to see Kevin Trompat around 9 p.m. in Prahecq.
“We had a drink together then I left them” around 10:30 p.m., she adds.
The couple then spent the evening with a friend in their forties until 2:30 a.m., before disappearing.
His relatives lean towards "a bad meeting"
The utility of Leslie Hoorelbeke, 20, was found in Prahecq and the fitted van of his 22-year-old friend near a fishing hut in Coulon (Deux-Sèvres).
A call for witnesses was broadcast on social networks and an open judicial investigation.
In early December, belongings belonging to the couple, including the young man's road safety certificate (BSR), were found in a recycling container in Puyravault (Charente-Maritime).
The relatives of the disappeared, questioned during the search, lean towards "a bad meeting".
"We don't see what could have happened.
They had no enemies.
They are young people without problems, ”assures Karine Prat.
Once a fruit and vegetable seller in Niort, Kevin Trompat was looking to set up a business selling fishing tackle, “his great passion”.
One of his friends, Théo Boinot, present on Thursday, did not consider it "possible" that he left "overnight, without taking his two dogs, without taking his truck, finally without leaving any news to anyone".
Self-employed in building painting, Leslie Hoorelbeke had work in progress.
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Deux-Sèvres: A hunt organized after the worrying disappearance of Leslie and Kevin
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Deux-Sèvres: An investigation opened after the mysterious disappearance of a couple
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Poitou-Charentes
Niort
Disappearance