Poland Poland - Emil Petrrov, 19, Warsaw, Oct. 2009

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"1 October 2009 Emil, 04.12.89, from Finland, was in WARSAW, POLAND, on his way to start hitch-hiking via BERLIN towards STOCKHOLM where we live. He was trying to be home for the 8 of October, and planning to then travel to Finland together with me.

PLEASE CONTACT ME: emma.amande@gmail.com IF YOU HAVE SEEN HIM SOMEWHERE between Warsaw and Sweden or anywhere else, also if you have met him earlier and have any information about him that could help us find him".
 
http://www.missingabroad.org/missing-profile/emil-petrov


"Missing Abroad is collaborating with Missing Americans and other worldwide organisations to raise awareness of Emil Petrov, who disappeared in October last year.

Emil was on his way home to Stockholm, in Sweden, following two and a half months travelling Europe. In the last emails he sent home on the 1st October 2009 he said he was in Warsaw, Poland, and planned to ravel to Berlin, Germany, the same evening.

Nothing has been seen or heard of Emil since that last email.

Do you know anything? Have you seen Emil? Were you in any of the areas on those dates?




Do you have any information?:



Missing Abroad runs a confidential hotline based in the UK for information. From the UK you can call our 24 hour central freephone information hotline on 0800 098 8485. Calls will be free from landlines but may be charged from mobiles.

From Overseas you can call (+44) 800 098 8485 but please check call costs from your country.

You can email operations@missingabroad.org in confidence to leave any information or to request someone to call you.
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Please join and spread awareness of Emil's facebook group.
 
http://missingalert.blogspot.ca/2011/01/emil-petrov.html

"Nationality: Finnish

Missing date: 2009/ 10/ 01
Age when went missing: 19
Height: 190 cm
Eyes: brown

Last seen: Poland

Emil was on his way home to Stockholm, in Sweden, following two and a half months travelling Europe. In the last emails he sent home on the 1st October 2009 he said he was in Warsaw, Poland, and planned to ravel to Berlin, Germany, the same evening. Nothing has been seen or heard of Emil since that last email"
 
It's been almost 4 years...How scary he never contacted his loved ones again. Wondering if he was suffering from mental health problems. Maybe he got into the drug scene somewhere.
 
Longish article..

http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/...finnish-hitchhiker-20-in-schengen-europe.html

"Missing person: Emil Petrov

For you he is just another person in the thousands that get lost every year. For his desperate family, he is a brother and a son, for whom they have been ceaselessly looking over the past few months. It is not easy – before opening the borders of the Schengen zone, looking for a lost person was like trying to find a specific pin in a haystack. Ever since cross-border controls were eliminated throughout the nearly four million square miles of Schengen Europe, it seems more like trying to find that needle in a haystack.

We do not know a lot about Emil’s actual route, because the Finn rarely stayed in contact with his family. He hitchhiked and slept in bushes or in abandoned buildings. He ate what he found on the streets and in the woods or what he got from people in exchange for his work. He had visited Germany, Italy and Greece. The last time he was seen was in Ukraine, as he boarded the train from Odessa in the south to Lviv in the west. Interpol (the international criminal police organisation) confirmed that Emil Petrov crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border in Hrebenne at 1:30 am on October 1. The trace is lost in the capital of Poland"
 
http://findingemil.blogspot.ca/"How to recognize Emil by look

He has a strong chin, straight teeth, brown-green eyes, well defined cheekbones.
His hair is brown and length of it below the chin. Since we last saw him and from the latest pictures we know it is a little tangled, like beginning to be dreadlocks.
He is tall, 190+ cm, always been slim, and has broad shoulders.
Shoesize : 45 ( ! )
His voice is little coarse, he often speaks slowly and not very loud.
He speaks Finnish, Swedish, English, a little German, and from what he told us he tried to learn some Russian on his trip. If he has stayed in Poland since october, he probably knows some Polish too by now.
His movements are often calm, and he walks mostly quite slow.
His clothing normally is carefree and relaxed. Often he wears worn, sometimes broken clothes, and often wool when cold. Now the style can ofcourse be different.
He can seem to be dreamy and in his own thoughts.
He is well mannered and kind, so if you see him, dont be afraid to talk to him and ask him if he is Emil!"
 
Maybe he got into some underground organization...He seems to be described as young and carefree, wasn't familar with the area and people there. Could have been lured into something illegal maybe.
 
What happened to Emil?

emil%20profile.png
 
Wonder if there is any chance that Emil had his passport available and may have traveled to North America?
Surely someone, perhaps a tourist, may have noticed this handsome and apparently soft-spoken, young man.
 
He's been missing for almost 5 years, way too long. I don't know why but I think he's alive somewhere out there. Maybe he's being (negatively) influenced by some people and that's why he hasn't contacted his loved ones, but I do think Emil is alive.
 
Finally registered to start commenting on threads like this, my thoughts are with Emil and his family... I hope he is well and ready to be found.

Does anyone know if Emil's emails were ever checked against where he said he was at the time? There may be information in the email headers or there could be nothing - but thought it was worth noting, especially if the family still have the original emails.
 
http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/finding-a-missing-finnish-hitchhiker-20-in-schengen-europe.html
[h=1]Finding a missing Finnish hitchhiker, 20, in Schengen Europe[/h] Article published on March 24, 2010

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How has the opening of the internal borders of the Schengen zone affected the European statistics of missing people? It is impossible to tell, as there's no existing pan-European network co-ordinating the search for lost adults. Co-operation only includes searching for children from the countries who belong to the missing children Europe (MCE) federation. A 'Schengen information system' does exist, but it is a base that can be accessed only by police, explains Kinga Siembab from the ITAKA foundation, a Polish NGO for information on missing people. Half a year after Emil’s disappearance, daily life has resumed and taken back mediatic and police attention, as well as most of the Polish people who have been engaged in the search. There are no new clues. A respective two and six weeks have been fruitless searching in Warsaw and Krakow; there is no proof that Emil was in either one of the two cities. Emil’s family plans to leave Poland soon. The investigation hit a dead end. The last sure fact is the record of Emil crossing the border in Hrebenne. It is not known if he is in Poland, or is alive at all.
See more details on UK-based Missing Abroad. An analogous, but much smaller online community has been formed on couchsurfing.org. Meanwhile, Emma continues to update new developments in the search on a blog
 

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