{"id":29820,"date":"2026-06-03T03:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/29820\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:31:13","slug":"kurt-mcnamara-found-in-paris-hospital-after-family-of-kiwi-man-with-parkinsons-pleads-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/29820\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt McNamara found in Paris hospital after family of Kiwi man with Parkinson\u2019s pleads for help"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cHe has no phone, money, identification or bank cards with him and may be confused, distressed, unable to communicate clearly or disoriented,\u201d the family said in a message shared with the Herald.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe also has a prosthetic leg, which affects his mobility and balance, making him a very high fall risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was last seen with a wheelchair\/walking aid in the Notre Dame area of Paris several days ago (night of the Paris riots) and has not been seen since.\u201d<\/p>\n
New Zealander Kurt McNamara went missing on Saturday, May 30 (local time).<\/p>\n
The message said French Police, New Zealand authorities and the NZ Embassy were involved, \u201cbut we are asking the public to please help share his photo and information as widely as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n
The family said they are \u201cexhausted and worried sick\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) confirmed it is \u201cproviding assistance to a New Zealander and their family in Paris\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor privacy reasons no further information will be provided,\u201d an MFAT spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
About 219 people were reportedly injured in clashes between football fans and local police across France after Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s victory over Arsenal in the Champions League final on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The unrest was largest in Paris, where thousands of officers were deployed, with 57 injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe has no phone, money, identification or bank cards with him and may be confused, distressed, unable to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6460,21601,21600,3220,7142,3048,21591,21595,4716,689,21592,21589,8683,21590,21598,3026,30,21593,21594,21599,21597,2508,21596],"class_list":["post-29820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-after","tag-been","tag-days","tag-disease","tag-family","tag-for","tag-found","tag-help","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-kiwi","tag-kurt","tag-man","tag-mcnamara","tag-missing","tag-of","tag-paris","tag-parkinsons","tag-pleads","tag-three","tag-went","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}