It's been seven days since Mathieu Caillot, a young man of 28, fled from the Charles Perrens psychiatric hospital in Bordeaux, without money or phone.
A call for witnesses was posted on the Facebook group of the association Aide et Assistance des Recherches de Disparus (AARD) with more than 13,000 members and a member of his family founded the group "Mathieu Caillot has disappeared, help us" where a description as well as two photos are diffused.
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According to the AARD, the family contacted the association only on Friday, October 15 because "
the hospital had
'forgotten'
to report his runaway / disappearance to the competent authorities
" as early as October 12.
The police claim to have been seized of the file by the hospital without specifying the date of the report.