“Our hope is based on the fact that no news is good news. There's no clue our son has been to the river, so if there's no clue he's there, then for us our son is somewhere,” said the boy’s father, Kouadio Frederic Kouakou.
There are still few clues to go on two months after the boy’s disappearance.
“We have found absolutely nothing. No item of clothing, no accessory that belongs to this young boy, so we need to keep hope alive,” said Arcamone.
Part of this new poster campaign is a stronger link to Info-Crime, which has so far received more than 600 calls about Ariel.
“Sometimes the little things, we think it's not important. (People think) ‘I'm not going to call because maybe I'm going to disturb.’ No one is disturbing Info-Crime Montreal. Call. Give the information,” said Jean Touchette, president of Info-Crime.
A vigil will be held at Église Sainte-Odile at 4545 de Salaberry Street, Saturday at 11 a.m.
Here are details about Ariel, who speaks French:
- About four feet seven inches tall, weighing 88 pounds.
- Dark hair and dark eyes.
- Last seen wearing a black coat with a hood, grey pants and yellow shoes.
Unidentified body found today in Montreal: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/body-found-in-st-laurent-technopark-1.3925440
Is this anywhere near where Ariel was last seen? I can't get Google maps to cooperate for me today.
Unidentified body found today in Montreal: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/body-found-in-st-laurent-technopark-1.3925440
Is this anywhere near where Ariel was last seen? I can't get Google maps to cooperate for me today.
We are coming to the end of a long weekend here in Canada and I thought about Ariel and his family...probably so hard for them with on holiday weekends. The weather has been fabulous and today was an afternoon of full sun and 25 degrees C.
If little Ariel is in that river I think it cant be too much longer before he surfaces. May is typically a month of rapid water temp rises and I'm hoping there will be some news soon...
I can't even find where they even went out after the snow completely melted and even went and looked for him in the water. I know they did search the water when it was still icy and snowy, but since the weather has changed, I have not seen anything to suggest that they have been back out there. It is so quiet...weird.I can’t believe he hasn’t been found? Maybe he was kidnapped.
Re: Continued searching.
I think at a certain point the police and other official searches can no longer invest the time and the resources to finding a body. Even volunteer searches run out of steam. I will say that I can’t cross that river without thinking of Ariel and I’m sure anybody who’s heard of the case in Montreal feels much the same way. For sure there are a lot of eyes on the river...even in a disorganized way.
Downstream there is Hydro-Quebec power station that spans the river and a tributary but I haven’t been able to find out if it processes/screens/scans 100% of the flow.