Last July, Kelyan, a 22-year-old autistic young man under guardianship, was found dead under the aerial metro bridge at the Jaurès station in Paris, in a basic tent erected by crack users.
If the disappearances of autistic people generally result in less dramatic ends, the phenomenon has the full attention of the police and the gendarmes.
In Seine-et-Marne, Savoie, Oise or even Paris, alerts and search notices for these people reported missing have multiplied in recent years.
Seven of them would have died in two years, according to the Sécur' autisme collective.
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