Intense search to find Thibaut, 14, who disappeared during a trek

Hope is fading. A search has been underway for a week on the Indonesian island of Bali to try to find a 14-year-old French teenager who disappeared during a trek, we learned this Sunday. “We have asked the Indonesian authorities to continue the search beyond the statutory period of seven days,” said Elsa Rochier, the French consul in Jakarta, who assures that “significant resources are being mobilized.”

Thibault, originally from the Paris region, was on holiday with his mother and two brothers. He disappeared during a trek on Mount Batukaru, one of the two highest peaks on the island. During the descent, in the late afternoon, the boy and his older brother aged 16, “both slipped and fell into a ravine”, explained a family member.

The two brothers were able to exchange

The eldest, who did not fall in exactly the same place, was able to go and call for help the next morning, telling his brother, who was stuck on a ledge, not to move while he waited. Not seeing her two children arrive, the mother raised the alarm that same evening.

When the emergency services arrived at the scene, they did not find the teenager, said the family member. The latter assured that the missing young man did not appear to have been injured in the fall and had communicated verbally with his brother during the night.

“The rescue operation is continuing,” said Kadek Donny Indrawan, who coordinates the Indonesian search team in Buleleng, north of the island of Bali. “About 30 people are mobilized,” he added, adding that “for the moment the search has not yielded any results.”

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