A few hours before the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games, a para athlete has disappeared.
The Paralympic Games, which should be a celebration, have already been marred by the worrying disappearance of an athlete. Since August 20, a Rwandan para athlete in sitting volleyball has been missing. This Wednesday, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation into “worrying disappearance”. According to a police source, on August 20 at around 7 p.m., the Olympic sitting volleyball athlete left the Courbevoie camp (Hauts-de-Seine) where his delegation was staying to go to a restaurant and never returned.
The disappearance was reported on Tuesday around 1 p.m. by the president of the Rwandan Olympic Committee. The Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, which has jurisdiction over this case, confirmed“the seizure of the BRDP (the Brigade for the Suppression of Crimes against Persons, editor’s note) as part of an investigation into a worrying disappearance”The Rwandan ambassador was informed of these facts and went to the site, detailed the police source quoted by Le Figaro.