Fifty-five-year old Marie Claire can barely hide her tears, while daughter Catherine cannot control them. Marie's son and Catherine's twin brother Jean-Baptiste Talleu has been missing for over a year now. The family had registered a complaint in December 2007.
"We often hope, but there has been no concrete news tracing him, the police told us," says Catherine.
Talleu, who would turn 27 this year, had set out on a world wide tour on his cycle in July 2007. He travelled through Europe, Iran, Dubai and was headed for Pondicherry via Mumbai before he disappeared.
Talleu had last called his mother from Dubai on December 2.
Marie and her husband Pierre have been putting up posters announcing a reward of Rs 2 lakh at various places for the past three months now. They have also travelled from Varkala in Kerala to New Delhi where Talleu was reportedly seen, but to no avail.
"We were disappointed, we believed the story of the man who called with information to be true," says Catherine.
The Claire family has even searched near Mumbai's Goregaon East area where he had last withdrawn money from an ATM. Though the French police hasn't been given permission to investigate Jean's disappearance in India, his parents are not giving up.
Catherine says, "We will stay back here and pursue the matter with the police."
Marie and Pierre hope to find their son alive some day, even if it means managing with whatever little English they know.
jeudi 23 avril 2009
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Hello. I'm travelling in India with my family at the moment, and are currently in Mumbai. I saw the wanted poster last night. My first thought was 'oh that's that guy the people in Delhi saw when they were here last week'... then I read on and realised that this person was missing. I keep wracking my brain as to who told me they'd spent time with a French guy who was cycling around the world, and I think it was a family from the UK (Lakes District) who we met in Delhi last week and were sharing travel stories with them. (They'd been to Mumbai and returned to Delhi and were staying at the same hotel as us.)
I'm not sure if this is accurate (my memory is hazy, as I wasn't paying too much attention to the details of their travels at the time), but if this info helps, or you want the name of the hotel we were staying at in Delhi, and then are somehow able to contact the family in the UK, please email me on: fiona@treefroggroup.com.au
I'm back in Australia in a week's time and am unsure if I have email access after tomorrow as we travel to Chennai and beyond, before returning home.
I wish you all the best in finding John.
- fiona
Bonjour,
Juste une idée, à laquelle vous avez peut-être déjà pensé... Peut-être serait-il intéressant de participer aux rassemblements "hippies", ou fêtes des communautés en Inde. Y distribuer des flyers avec la photo de votre fils pourrait aider. Ces fêtes, très nombreuses en Inde et très fréquentées, sont le point de ralliement de nombreux européens qui vivent toute l'année dans des zones isolées du territoire indien (ashrams etc), et l'un d'entre-eux aura peut-être des informations? C'est une idée comme ça mais je me dis que comme ces fêtes sont l'occasion de réunir des personnes qui se sont coupées du monde, pour motif spirituel, familial, personnel etc, mais aussi de grandes réunions où les routards habitués des hôtels pas chers ou du bénévolat dans les centres humanitaires se retrouvent... Je ne sais pas mais sait-on jamais?
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