Father of missing Montreal boy still confident he will be found safely
MONTREAL — As firefighters, an ice rescue unit and police on all-terrain vehicles and horseback trudged through fresh-fallen snow in their search for a missing Montreal boy Wednesday, his father held out hope he will come home safely.
“I’m talking and thinking about those people I don’t know and who are here to help us, so I have hope, I have hope,” Frederic Kouakou told reporters at a police command post set up to help find Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, 10.
“My son (will) come back. I have that feeling.”
Wednesday’s search was centred on a park and riverbank near where the boy was last seen Monday afternoon after telling family he was heading to a friend’s house.