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<\/p>\nRobert Kincaid, from the Tullycarnet area, was due to arrive in Dublin on the evening of July 17, but never boarded his flight.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old oil rig worker was returning from a stint working at a west African site in Benin and was set to board his connecting flight from Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris.<\/p>\n
Louis Kincaid, Robert\u2019s brother, said that he had also previously worked in central Africa.<\/p>\n
His last known point of contact is understood to have been a video call with a friend made from a bar in the airport.<\/p>\n
Louis told this newspaper: \u201cI think he was in the airport bar having a chat basically. As far as I\u2019m aware, there was nothing bad said, there was nothing suspicious said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were just having a bit of craic over the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a very sociable person, but he could have met someone in the airport bar \u2014 we just don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The 38-year-old’s last known point of contact was on July 17<\/p>\n
A friend video-called Robert again, although a stranger answered the phone instead.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looked like [they were in] a tin corrugated roof building. They basically said the phone [battery] was on 0% in broken English,\u201d Louis explained.<\/p>\n
The second and final call made to Robert\u2019s phone was picked up by a woman, but the caller was unable to make out what was said before the line was cut off and has been uncontactable ever since.<\/p>\n
Messages to Robert on WhatsApp and other social media are also no longer being delivered.<\/p>\n
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Robert Kincaid<\/p>\n
News Catch Up – Monday 28th July<\/p>\n
Louis added: \u201cWe\u2019re in the dark. We went through the PSNI. We went through the embassy \u2014 they\u2019ve done a fantastic job. I have to give credit to the two girls who are working there now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to get some details, but there are a lot of restrictions with GDPR regarding missing people and it\u2019s just roadblocks.\u201d<\/p>\n
After contacting the PSNI, Louis was directed towards the French authorities, but has found difficulty making contact from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
Louis and a family friend will fly to Paris on Wednesday to meet with British embassy officials who will help the pair liaise with local police.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s going to be someone meeting us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Foreign Office has organised someone to meet us, it\u2019s someone in the airport,\u201d said Louis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re going to help us with translation, and we\u2019re going to file an official missing persons report in Paris, and then we\u2019re just going to be going about, putting posters all around places.\u201d<\/p>\n
Louis added: \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have any contacts in France, but he is a very sociable person, he would make friends with anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
He explained that his family is growing increasingly worried as time goes on.<\/p>\n
Louis said: \u201cThey\u2019re holding together, it\u2019s just the unknown.<\/p>\n
\u201cMum\u2019s not really sleeping at the moment. It is starting to get to her as the days go on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Paris police have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Kincaid, from the Tullycarnet area, was due to arrive in Dublin on the evening of July 17,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2378,29366,2000,299,36,1610],"class_list":{"0":"post-300708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-east-belfast-news","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114935551204370498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}