Europe 1 with AFP 5:42 p.m., February 16, 2024

In Deux-Sèvres, an 18-year-old student, Erwan B., has been missing since an evening at a nightclub last weekend in Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre. His family filed a complaint against the establishment for "failure to assist a person in danger", according to the Niort public prosecutor's office.

The family of an 18-year-old student, missing since a discotheque last weekend in Deux-Sèvres, has filed a complaint against the establishment for "failure to assist a person in danger", according to the Niort public prosecutor's office. . Prosecutor Julien Wattebled indicated on Friday that he had opened an investigation, entrusted to the gendarmerie, while a separate procedure for a worrying disappearance, already in progress, gave rise to significant searches, in particular in the surrounding watercourses and ponds. , which have remained in vain to this day.

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The disappearance of Erwan B. was reported by friends with whom he had spent Saturday evening in a nightclub located in Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre. According to the investigation, he came out on Sunday around 1:45 a.m. and video surveillance images showed him later that night in the establishment's parking lot.

His phone was broadcast until 2:50 a.m., according to the prosecution, which does not favor any lead. A call for witnesses was issued after a hunt on Monday, in which 120 people participated. Dozens of gendarmes, including divers, helped by dogs, a drone and a helicopter, took part in the search over the last few days.

A co-manager of the nightclub told

Courrier de l'Ouest

earlier this week that the evening brought together more than 900 people in the nightclub, where seven security guards worked, including two responsible for guarding outside. “We have nothing to reproach ourselves for,” he told the newspaper, adding that one of the agents had brought the missing young man back in front of the establishment as he was heading towards an embankment and the water points. surroundings. A “non-serious” incident linked to his alcohol consumption would have been the cause of his exit from the nightclub, according to certain witnesses.