French prosecutors announced on Wednesday that Leul Alba Buenestado, the Spanish Erasmus student who disappeared in Lille (north) five days ago, was found alive in Iceland. Prosecutor Carole Étienne said the information was given to her by French investigators. According to Étienne, the student contacted his parents by phone.
“We have just received new information that we need to confirm indicating that he is in Iceland. “This is good news because we would not be talking about a disturbing disappearance,” Étienne, who could not provide further details about the appearance, told EFE.
The prosecutor said that, according to the police commissioner in charge of the investigation, the young Erasmus student contacted his parents, who live in Melilla.
Three friends of the master's student at the Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences (FSJPS) in Lille reported the young man's disappearance on Saturday, December 16, a day after the young man failed to show up at a Christmas dinner.
At the weekend, police searched room 127 of the Albert Châtelet dormitory where the student lived. “There was no disorder in the room that would have suggested an argument, there were personal things that were no longer there, something normal for someone who wants to go on a trip.” “Only one window was open,” revealed The prosecutor.
The public ministry representative added that the French authorities' procedure, after telephone tracing, concluded that the missing young man initially bought a Blablacar ticket to Amsterdam alone. “We have no indication that he was accompanied. “Neither the initial investigation nor the statements of his friends lead us to believe that he had a girlfriend or boyfriend with whom he could have gone,” he explained.
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Etiénne also clarified that “nothing suggests” that there were signs of any kind of radicalization on the part of the Erasmus student.