Missing autistic person
Police plan new search for six-year-old Arian
As with this search on April 29, the Oste River is the focus of the police search for Arian
© Daniel Bockwoldt / DPA
Arian has been missing from Bremervörde-Elm for three weeks now. The police are faced with a puzzle given the unsuccessful searches – but they still don’t give up.
Around three weeks after the disappearance of six-year-old Arian, the investigators want to go to the north Lower Saxony’s search for the autistic child will be intensified again. “We now don’t understand why the boy isn’t found somewhere,” police spokesman Heiner van der Werp told the German Press Agency on Monday. Many people were out and about along the Oste River on the sunny long weekend.
Another search operation on the river is planned this week. “We will also use technical equipment,” said the spokesman. As a second measure, the residents of the towns near Arian’s home in Bremervörde-Elm will be asked again whether they have made any observations. “It will be a kind of door cleaning,” said van der Werp.
Arian left home alone
The autistic boy has been missing since April 22nd. Police believe he left home on his own. For a week, hundreds of emergency services and volunteers searched day and night on land, in the air and in the water for Arian. Search dogs, a cavalry squadron, helicopters, drones, a tornado plane, an amphibious vehicle, boats and divers were used. At the end of April, the police initially stopped the active search. A group of five investigators is continuing to work on the case and following up on clues.
Pictures of the operation
1,200 emergency services are searching for missing Arian with a large human chain
The uncertainty is very stressful for the relatives and everyone involved, said the police spokesman. An accident still seems most likely because Arian left his home alone on the evening of April 22nd. Footage from a private surveillance camera shows the six-year-old running towards the forest. But investigations are being carried out in all directions, said the spokesman: “We have never ruled out the possibility that he was kidnapped.”