CANADA Canada - Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, 10, Montreal, 12 March 2018

[freudianslip]

Where does it say he was last seen for sure leaving his house? I’m not seeing that anywhere. I’m seeing that he was reported to have left his house around noon but I’m not reading where anyone has actually confirmed seeing him.

Even the sighting in the park is a bit weird. It came to the police’s attention from a third party that a woman may have seen him on Monday around 2pm at the park and told the third party about it but nobody can actually track down this woman and they are asking her to come forward.

You're right. My bad. I took the information about the last known sighting from the parent's interview, not from the linked article.

It is also stated in the latest article below. The article also mentions that he was spotted during lunch time knocking at his friend's door. The lady who saw him in the park at 2 met with LE and gave a matching description.

(In French) : http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...rey-kouakou-les-recherches-se-poursuivent.php

 

[GinaSeikwa]

Yes the reporting has been somewhat confusing. I’m glad the female witness finally came forward last night and they have neighbours saying that he was seen knocking on the friends door.
I’m really thinking accident/river at this point. I wish there was a heavier presence at the river. There were a few cases of missing children going through the ice there. A case that a poster mentioned above as well as an autistic boy from Laval about 7 years ago who wandered and was found there at about this exact time of year. I’ll see if I can find links.

 

[ms_x_to_the_m]

Bumping for Ariel.

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[dotr]

http://montrealgazette.com/news/loc...r-ariel-jeffrey-kouakou-as-amber-alert-lifted

[h=1]Search continues for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou as Amber Alert lifted[/h] 10-year-old seen at a riverfront park — close to his home and the home of a friend he had planned on visiting

Montreal police are using all-terrain vehicles and its calvary unit as part of their search for 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, who went missing from his family home in Ahuntsic-Cartierville at noon Monday.

Officers on horseback and on foot are searching the deep snow in parks adjacent to Rivière des Prairies. The missing boy was last last seen in a riverfront park — close to his home and the home of a friend he had planned on visiting.

The Commission scolaire de Montréal has sent a team of psychologists and social workers to Ariel’s elementary school to support the staff and his classmates.

Ariel is a Grade 4 student at École François-de-Laval in Ahuntsic. The students had been attending classes in a school annex and moved into a new building on Wednesday, said Alain Perron, a spokesperson for the CSDM.

“We are opening the school today so it was supposed to be a festive day for the students, but instead there is a dark cloud over the school,” he said.

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-search-10-year-old-boy-missing-1.4575490

Montreal police are using a different strategy in hopes of finding a 10-year-old boy who went missing from Ahuntsic-Cartierville on Monday and was the subject of an Amber Alert until it was lifted late the next day.

Officers are now canvassing the area and surrounding neighbourhoods in search of Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, said Insp. André Durocher.

"Nothing is impossible. We can't exclude anything," Durocher said. "The worst thing we could do is to exclude any possibility."

Police are asking anyone with information about Ariel's disappearance to come to their temporary command post set up outside police Station 10 at 11756 O'Brien Boulevard.

Durocher said the alert was an "exceptional measure given that it was almost 24 hours since the boy disappeared and that we heard absolutely nothing."

"Was it the most appropriate measure? Listen, that's not our worry for the moment," he said. "Our preoccupation is to find the young boy."

The Amber Alert led police to find a woman who spoke to Ariel near Parc des Bateliers, which is two minutes from his home.

Executive director Pina Arcamone said police made the right move to launch the alert, but it was wrong to lift it because it is confusing to the public.

"The last thing we would want is for the public to think that Ariel was found and this is the reason we don't hear about him this morning, and that's really, really false," she said.

 

[freudianslip]

Active search on the river, from the Laval side and down the current. Prayers.

L'équipe lavalloise a mis son embarcation à l'eau à la hauteur du pont Viau alors que les pompiers de Montréal ont débuté leurs recherches devant le parc Gagné, dans Laval-des-Rapides.

https://www.courrierlaval.com/faits-divers/2018/3/14/recherches-actives-sur-la-riviere-pour-retrouver-le-petit-ariel.html

 

[whitelilac]

No, not the river....I was afraid of this. .......

 

[matou]

A woman who spoke to Ariel in Parc des Bateliers at 2 p.m. on Monday told police that Ariel looked sad because his friend wasn’t home and they couldn’t play together.


“She is a credible witness and we have no reason to doubt that she spoke to him,” said Inspector André Durocher of the Montreal police. “That allowed us to confirm the last place he was seen.”


Durocher would not say what prompted the woman to talk to Ariel.


Police are trying to retrace the missing boy’s path from his friend’s house to the park, hoping to find “a piece of clothing or a footprint to guide us,” Durocher said.


The heavy snowfall overnight Tuesday has made that job more difficult. Divers were unable to search the river on Wednesday because the current is too strong.

http://montrealgazette.com/news/loc...r-ariel-jeffrey-kouakou-as-amber-alert-lifted

 

[MsFacetious]

Now that he's been verified seen AFTER he left the house...
I can't really think of another option besides the river.
Unless he was abducted I just don't see him being alive.

I always wonder which is worse.... dying quickly or being held captive.
We shouldn't have to think things like this about 10 year old boys.

 

[dotr]

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/20...erche-concentres-vers-la-riviere-des-prairies
https://translate.google.ca/transla...tres-vers-la-riviere-des-prairies&prev=search

The research units planned to dive into the river on Wednesday morning, but they had to give up because of the current that was too strong. All research efforts are now focused on an area of ​​approximately six kilometers from the Bateliers Park to the Hydro-Québec dam located east of the Papineau-Leblanc Bridge (Highway 19).
The perimeter has already been squared twice since Tuesday morning.
The police also asked Hydro-Québec to reduce the water flow of the river to facilitate research that could take place on the other side of the dam.

 

[freudianslip]

Oh no !

All research efforts are now focused on an area of ​​approximately six kilometers from the Bateliers Park to the Hydro-Québec dam located east of the Papineau-Leblanc Bridge (Highway 19).

rbbm

 

[dotr]

CCTV VIDEO.

Images of the young Ariel captured 48 hours ago by surveillance cameras in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville neighborhood

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/03/14/disparition-du-petit-ariel-images
https://translate.google.ca/transla...disparition-du-petit-ariel-images&prev=search

On the images, we can see the boy walking on the sidewalk to the east. We also distinguish very well yellow Adidas shoes with which he left home Monday noon. The cameras of the restaurant Le Bordelais, located a few steps away, also captured the little Ariel a few minutes later.
The Montreal police are in possession of all the images and are still trying to find the boy.

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/03/14/on-craignait-hier-pour-la-securite-de-lenfant

 

[AmyPond]

So are they thinking he somehow fell into the river? Anyone have photos of what the area looks like?

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

[bbm]

so you think he's not missing at all? I'm confused

I did not want to not answer you (hello, double negative, sheesh - I wanted to answer you), but I was away from WS. By now, you've read all the latest and see that there are many other possibilities to running away or being abducted.

ugh, the latest news... sounds like he was pretty sad about his friend not being home... bored, lonely, sad... please, please be somewhere safe, little man.

 

[dotr]

http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada...l-boy-still-confident-he-will-be-found-safely

Father of missing Montreal boy still confident he will be found safely

The Canadian Press
Published March 14, 2018 - 3:32pm

"I'm talking and thinking about those people I don't know and who are here to help us, so I have hope, I have hope," Frederic Kouakou told reporters at a police command post set up to help find Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, 10.
"My son (will) come back. I have that feeling."

Montreal police spokesman Jean-Pierre Brabant said officers from nearby communities as well as a canine unit were assisting in the search, and police were also assessing whether to send divers into the river.

But Kouakou said he didn't believe his son would have gone to the river because the family never went there.

Issiaka Samassi, who knows the boy's father, said he joined the search in response to a call from the local Ivorian association.

He said searchers were very worried, but still hopeful the boy would be found safe.

“It's already been two to three days, and (it's harder) with the snow, but we still have hopes of finding him," Samassi said in an interview.

"We hope to find him at someone's place, that someone took him in and will come forward."

 

[Phei]

So are they thinking he somehow fell into the river? Anyone have photos of what the area looks like?

This is apparently where he lives : https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Ru...d0d2ec03aaefe3!8m2!3d45.5419116!4d-73.6964735

This is where his friend lives next to the train tracks. : https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Ru...d0d2ec03aaefe3!8m2!3d45.5419116!4d-73.6964735



And this is the park where the lady last saw him at 2 pm. https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Pa...a92352dfe8a11c!8m2!3d45.5442942!4d-73.7033165

 

[Phei]

His father in a recent interview said that he warned Ariel of the dangers of water. That he would never go near water.

 

[MsFacetious]

I sure hope his father is right and he comes home alive.

 

[Phei]

Map with approximate locations.

 

[whitelilac]

Was it foggy on the day? Is there ice on the water from the edge of the shore? Could he have mistaken that ice for ground especially if there was a layer of snow covering?