This is a text with a happy ending. An 8-year-old boy had been missing for more than a week and was found alive in a sewer. The case took place in Oldenburg, located in northwestern Germany.
Last Saturday, the state city of Nidersachse woke up more rested. The local police announced, through twitterthat Joe had been rescued. “We are really happy”Police spokesman Stephan Klatte was quoted as saying by the Welt newspaper.
#TO UPDATE ????????????
‼️‼️Der 8-jährige #Joseph debt‼️‼️
Er wurde soeben en #Oldenburg in einem Gulli aufgefunden❗️
Aktuell wird er in ein Krankenhaus gebracht und dort versorgt.
Nähere Infos folgen hier. *in
— Polizei Oldenburg-Stadt/Ammerland (@Polizei_OL) June 25, 2022
According to an official statement from that police force, “at 6:22 a pedestrian” located Joe – whose nickname has not been revealed, following German law – about 300 meters from his house, after “hearing noises coming from a manhole cover”. The citizen quickly alerted the security forces, who immediately “opened the lid and found the child unharmed.” At the time, the boy was “naked, hypothermic and dehydrated,” Euronews writes.
His clothes were later found at another point in the sewer, “in a pipe about 60 centimeters in diameter,” the NDR reports. Through another statement, the German police “unequivocally” attributed the pieces found “to the eight-year-old boy, since they were the same ones that Joe was wearing before he disappeared.”
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Joe suffers from a mental disability. and disappeared during the afternoon of June 17, when he was last seen. Police quickly activated search engines, relying on “dogs, drones and helicopters,” Spiegel learned. Dozens of volunteers also joined this search for the child. Two days before they found him, “the police were still talking about signs of crime,” says the same newspaper.
Now it is known that this option has been discarded and the public security forces consider that “Joe crawled through a pipe into the sewer system on the day of his disappearance and lost his orientation after several meters”.
The boy confirmed this assumption to the police. Still, officials “have no evidence that Joe could have stayed out” of the sewer “for the eight days.” It is not clear how the boy survived during that time, what he ate and drank, for example. Joe has not yet been questioned by the police.
During the search, some witnesses reported seeing the child “in the company of an unknown person”, but this clue was not confirmed, and now the hypothesis of “third party negligence” is ruled out.
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Source: Observadora
