RAQUEL VILLAÉCIJA
Correspondent
@rvillaecija
Paris
Updated Monday, January 30, 2023-01:36
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On the morning of November 25-26, two months ago now, Kevin and Leslie, aged 21 and 22, were picking themselves up after spending the evening with a friend.
They were in Prahecq, a town of about 2,000 people in the French commune of Deux-Sèvres, in the southwest of the country.
The couple was going to the house of another friend, who had lent it to them to spend the night, since he does not live there.
They only had to walk a few meters between one house and the other.
It was approximately two thirty in the morning.
Leslie and Kevin never showed up.
With them, her dog, Onyx, also vanishes.
Two months have now passed since this disturbing disappearance, not only because the young people disappeared in the middle of the night without a trace, but because
since then nothing is known: if they have been kidnapped or if it was a voluntary escape
.
The investigators have not been able to gather many clues and the little that is known about the circumstances of the disappearance are the information given by the friends and relatives of the two boys.
The case has the country in suspense.
The families rule out that Kevin and Leslie eloped, because, according to what they say, they had no problems and, in addition, they had only been together for a few weeks.
They reported her missing to the police days later.
The following day, Leslie's cell phone was located in Niort, in the same district as the town where they were last seen.
The gendarmerie has deployed canine teams and also divers to try to find the couple.
In addition, at this time there have also been several raids organized by friends to look for you in the area, all without success.
The investigators opt more for the criminal track
, they believe that they could have had some "unfortunate encounter", according to what has been leaked to the press, although they do not rule out that the boys escaped or some problem related to drug trafficking.
Last December
some of the couple's belongings
(some clothes, a toiletry bag, a young man's driver's license...) were found in a recycling container near the place where they disappeared, which has added more intrigue to the case.
Leslie was restoring a van, where in theory she planned to live, and the vehicle is still parked next to the house, which rules out that they escaped.
"If they had left voluntarily, they would have taken the car," says her father.
In the absence of progress in the investigation, or arrests, different theories based on statements and versions, sometimes contradictory, of family members and friends are developed.
The most disturbing is the one provided by Kevin's father's wife, who had assured the Police that, on the night of his disappearance,
the boy had 10,000 euros on him to buy a car
.
According to the version he has given to the press, the young man had met someone in the town square, but returned home shortly after, something strange, and told him that he had met some strange people following him in a car.
Then the couple went to dinner at his friend's house.
"They were two young people without problems and they had no enemies," Kevin's father's partner explained in January.
As stated by friends, they planned to spend that same weekend in Bordeaux.
The friend who lent them the house saw them in the afternoon and assured that he did not see anything unusual.
Investigators believe that they did enter the house after dinner, as they had left Leslie's dog, Onyx, also missing there.
Someone had to pick it up.
On social networks, the friends of the teenagers have posted photos of the animal, in case someone locates it and helps them find the couple.
Nothing.
Her father supports the kidnapping theory and believes that his daughter has been "collateral damage."
A witness has claimed to have seen two young people who answer to the same description in a supermarket in Portugal.
Tattoos and
piercings
make it easier to identify them.
Kevin's father is serving time for a felony in prison and has organized raids from jail.
He has spoken to the press
through intermediaries and social networks to give his own theory: kidnapping
.
He says that his son called him the day of the disappearance and told him that he was afraid.
To this are added disturbing events.
In January, in the raid that was organized to try to find the couple (on the recommendation of a medium), her mother's bag was stolen and his father's house was robbed.
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