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<\/p>\nIt\u2019s understood Robert Kincaid is currently receiving treatment at a medical facility in the French capital.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old, from the Tullycarnet area, was due to arrive in Dublin on the evening of July 17 but never boarded his flight.<\/p>\n
The 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
On Friday the family confirmed that Robert had been found by emergency services. <\/p>\n
In a statement to Belfast Live, Robert\u2019s brother Louis said: \u201cRab has been found by emergency services and is requiring ongoing emergency treatment. While he is not out of the woods yet, we are just glad he is alive.<\/p>\n
“As a family, we would ask for privacy in the time ahead as we deal with the situation.”<\/p>\n
In a post on Facebook, DUP leader Gavin Robinson said the news was a \u201cmassive relief\u201d for the family. <\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve been with the Kincaid family this afternoon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are delighted Robert has been found and are incredibly grateful for the public interest and community support.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would now appreciate privacy as they reunite with their son.\u201d <\/p>\n
Louis and a family friend flew to Paris on Wednesday to meet with British officials and assist in the search. <\/p>\n
Ahead of the trip, he told this newspaper his last known point of contact was a video call with a friend made from a bar in the airport.<\/p>\n
He said: \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.\u201d<\/p>\n
A friend video-called Robert again, although a stranger answered the phone instead.<\/p>\n
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Robert Kincaid<\/p>\n
News Catch Up – Friday 1st August<\/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.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have any contacts in France, but he is a very sociable person, he would make friends with anyone,\u201d his brother added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s understood Robert Kincaid is currently receiving treatment at a medical facility in the French capital. The 38-year-old,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29366,36,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-east-belfast-news","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114954153780084745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309549","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=309549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}