Yann Bourdon, a history student at the Sorbonne, had not given any news to his family since August 4, 2021. Left for a road trip on foot through Europe and Egypt in 2020, his relatives said to themselves “
Distraught
”, reports BFM Paris Ile-de-France.
Arrived in France on Thursday August 10, the young man does not wish to speak for the moment on the reasons for his disappearance.
“
On August 9, we got the information that Yann had presented himself at the French consulate in Cairo.
He communicated, by a telephone call, with his sister, in the first place, to warn her that he was present at the French consulate, that he was well.
Subsequently, he called his mother to also give her news
, ”says Sarah Sakouti, lawyer for Yann Bourdon, at BFM Paris Île-de-France.
"
We had to wait for information from the Egyptian authorities to find out what the next step was, and in the end it was the Egyptian national security agency itself that took Yann's plane ticket during the night of 9 to 10
" , she adds.
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His disappearance remained a mystery until then.
The 27-year-old had left an e-mail to his sister as his last sign of life, saying that he had been hitchhiked by an Egyptian policeman towards Cairo and that he would be staying in a youth hostel.
His family, who remained in the Yvelines, finally reported his disappearance in November.
The following month, she learned that Yvan Bourdon's bank account had been emptied on August 7, 2021. During the official visit of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi to the Élysée, the family of the deceased had organized an action to try to mediate the case.
Last July, a Facebook page was opened and a call for witnesses launched.