A 17-year-old autistic teenager, Mamadou Bah, has been missing from Sherbrooke for five days, without a phone or money. The wanted notices were launched in Sherbrooke, but not in Montreal, and the family of the young man is sorry that the eyes of Montrealers are not put to use to find him as soon as possible.
“We are not looking for him in the right place! exclaimed Mouhamadou Ndoye, the young man’s father-in-law, on Tuesday morning.
Mamadou Bah, a young black man, speaks French. He has black hair. Thin, he is 1.90 meters (6 feet and 3 inches) tall and weighs 68 kilos (150 pounds). On the day of his disappearance, he wore black and dark gray Calvin Klein-branded sweatpants, an African-style t-shirt with black back and colorful designs on the front, and black Vans-branded sneakers. .
Seen in Ahuntsic
Sherbrooke police have issued a wanted notice. She reported that the young man was seen at the Bromont bus station last Thursday evening and that the next day he showed up at his former high school, Évangeline, in Ahuntsic-Cartierville, the neighborhood where he grew up. .
But the school did not alert anyone because officials did not know he was wanted, Ndoye said Tuesday morning in an interview with The duty.
The young man’s father-in-law learned on Monday that Mamadou had also gone to his old job on Saturday, at the Métro André-Grasset grocery store in the Ahuntsic district. He himself went there and was able to see the cameras which captured images of the young person putting empty cans in a machine, in exchange for money, he said.
No reviews in Montreal
The man says he remains hopeful but is worried because the Montreal media did not broadcast the disappearance of his son-in-law. Sherbrooke media reported it in their reports, but it is no longer there, he insists.
“It makes more sense to focus on Montreal. But nobody talks about it in Montreal. »
Montreal police didn’t release anything, he said. The man says he contacted the Service de police de la ville de Montréal (SPVM) himself to obtain the distribution of a wanted notice, in vain. He also turned to the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), because Mamadou has a fascination for the metro, he said. But failure there too: he was told that it is the police who have the power to launch wanted notices.
Contacted on this subject on Monday, the SPVM declared that it had not received any request from the Sherbrooke police. The Montreal police explained that they do not act without an official request, so as not to harm the efforts of investigators from other police forces.
But the Sherbrooke police indicated Monday to the Duty have made the request. A statement reiterated Tuesday morning: “We made the request to the SPVM, according to the usual path,” said police spokesman Martin Carrier. The Media Relations Department received the request, and neighborhood stations 50, 21 and 10 also received the wanted notice, he added.
Tuesday morning, the notice had not been broadcast on Montreal territory.
If you have any information on this disappearance, please contact the Service de police de la ville de Sherbrooke at 819 821-5555.