During the night of Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 February 2024, Erwan disappeared after being escorted out of a nightclub from Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre in Deux-Sèvres, report our colleagues from BFMTV. On February 12, his stepmother, who has taken care of him since he was three years old, spoke about the character of this teenager whoshe describes as being “without problems” : “Erwan is very sociable, very calm. A healthy teenager, without problems, who does not have bad alcohol.” The known facts are as follows: Erwan was last seen at 2:30 a.m. He had just been taken out by a bouncer because of his intoxication. While the parking lot is equipped with a video surveillance system, a street lamp blinds the area in which the young man disappears. Since then, the young man has not given any news to his relatives and his mother-in-law categorically rules out the possibility of a runaway. Having been informed, the gendarmes launched a search in The area. “The searches (dogs, helicopter, divers) began as soon as the gendarmes were informed of the disappearance and are continuing“, declared the public prosecutor. In addition, five patrols of gendarmes and volunteers, including relatives of the young man, searched for him on Sunday February 11. “Nothing found, all areas explored“, clarified Erwan’s family.
Erwan’s mother-in-law: “It’s very long”
Sunday February 18, 2024, the young man’s stepmother spoke again, at the microphone of BFMTV. “We are helpless, helpless, we have no clue, we have no element that can allow us to give ourselves an orientation or to favor one avenue rather than another, so it’s very difficult.”, she lamented. The investigation opened by the Niort public prosecutor’s office to disturbing disappearance is moving forward with difficulty, while Erwan’s family continues to worry more and more: “A week is a very long time. The state of mind is to always keep hope, to keep the idea that we will find him and quickly. Nevertheless, it’s true that the anxiety is significant, we are extremely worried”.
Furthermore, Erwan’s mother-in-law points the finger at the nightclub’s choice to have taken him out. “On certain elements, there are perhaps things that could have been done or not been done, when we know the geographical location of the establishment and we throw a young person out and he is supposedly drunk. For us, there was danger”, she remarked while discussing her decision to file a complaint for “negligence” against the discotheque.