Another night of searching for missing 6-year-old Arian from Germany has again yielded no results. For the second night in a row, a “silent search” was held, with soldiers looking for the boy as quietly and darkly as possible. The idea is that the child, who is autistic, may be put off by all the commotion surrounding the hundreds of people who have been looking for him for days. In the meantime, the search for the boy from Bremervörde-Elm, a town between the cities of Bremen and Hamburg in Lower Saxony, continues with more helpers than ever.
No new clues were found last night, a police spokeswoman said this morning. Firefighters, civil protection, soldiers and other first responders today started the largest search operation to date. Eight hundred people will form a one-and-a-half-kilometre-wide human chain with which the entire search area will be searched again over the next ten hours, according to plans. GPS trackers prevent parts from being skipped. Previously, smaller groups searched the search area.
In addition to the human chain, drones, boats and riders are also used. All in all, 1,200 people are involved, authorities say. They say that the enormous commitment shows that hope is not yet lost that Arian will be found.
The boy walked away unnoticed from his parental home in Elm on Monday evening and has been missing ever since. Hundreds of people have been trying to find him for days. On Saturday a search was conducted in and around the water, but also on land. Traces were found, but the question is whether they were left by Arian. Research is still being conducted into this.
Surveillance camera footage shows him walking in a nearby forest after his disappearance. The boy has autism. He doesn’t speak and probably wouldn’t respond to calls from strangers. The police therefore use a modified so-called ‘silent’ strategy that was agreed with an autism expert, so that he would not be deterred by the emergency services. In addition to the silent search, fireworks have also been set off and loud music has been played, because Arian likes that. Furthermore, balloons and candy were hung on trees in the hope that he would come to them.
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