The Niort public prosecutor’s office announces that it has found identity papers belonging to the young man on the body recovered on Thursday April 4, near the nightclub where the young Erwan disappeared on the night of February 11 to 12, 2024.
Erwan Blais, 18, was last seen on the night of February 11 to 12, 2024. While he was in a nightclub in Moncoutant, the young man disappeared without a trace. A body was discovered on Thursday April 4 in a river near the place where the teenager was last seen in Deux-Sèvres, according to the Niort prosecutor’s office in a press release, cited by BFMTV.
The body “cannot be formally identified at this stage”
According to the latest elements of the investigation, Erwan’s identity papers were found on the body discovered this Thursday in a river, the Niort prosecutor’s office announced. The discovered body “was able to be brought back to the banks by the soldiers of the La Rochelle nautical brigade and to be the subject of an initial examination by the forensic doctor and the criminal identification technicians of the gendarmerie” he indicates. . He continues: “It is a man, dressed in pants and a sweatshirt. If he cannot be formally identified at this stage, identity papers in the name of Erwan (. ..) were found in the clothes worn by the deceased” concludes the prosecution.
A “citizen mobilization”
His family launched an appeal on Tuesday April 2 to find him through “citizen mobilization”. In an interview with BFMTV, her mother-in-law had “humbly asked each person to search every space again and again.” This appeal was addressed to each person within a “radius of 10, 20, 30 kilometers” around the place of Erwan’s disappearance.
She had taken this initiative in particular following progress in the Emile affair, whose bones were found this weekend. “It proved to us that even several months later, in areas where there had been searches, where people had raked the land, we could still find things today.” , she declared.
Any avenues considered?
“The citizen appeal for Erwan” was also broadcast on the Facebook page, Find Erwan. This was addressed to each “inhabitant, walker, hiker, fisherman, hunter” but also “farmers, forest guards, municipal employees, truck drivers, construction workers” in the sector to whom she asked to “check each field, wood, point water, well, shed, agricultural building…”.
The family had even mentioned the different possible avenues, in particular that of the accident and kidnapping with sequestration, addressing the potential responsible for the disappearance of the young man.