The fate of the couple of French nationals missing in Mexico is considered "
very worrying
" by their families, who are considering "a kidnapping", said Thursday, October 6 to AFP the sister of one of them.
Since September 12, a 57-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman have not given any sign of life to their relatives, living in the Basque Country, and have not posted any activity on their social networks.
The couple, married in May in Valladolid, have settled in this city in the state of Yucatan, where they have been managing two hotels and tourist rooms for several years.
The woman has been in the country for more than two years, while the man has lived there for fifteen years.
The families think of a kidnapping
If the research focuses on Chiapas, where the couple would have gone to a spiritual center in the tourist town of San Cristobal de las Casas, the families are skeptical and consider rather "
a kidnapping
" in the Yucatan, hundreds of kilometers away. distance.
By message, before September 12, the man would have indicated looking for land in Chiapas, while his wife spoke of this spiritual center.
"
It seemed weird to us, it's not their
style," Nawel Madjour, sister of the missing, told AFP, who also questions the origin of the messages.
“
We think they have never been to Chiapas and the problem is in Yucatan
,” she adds.
On Wednesday, the French Embassy in Mexico assured that "
its services [were] mobilized, just like the Consulate General of France in Mexico City, in close contact with the family
", to find the two Frenchmen.
More than 106,000 people have disappeared or are missing in Mexico since 1964, according to the National Register of Missing Persons.