A seventh member of the Haitian team that participated in the USA Special Olympics 2022, in which people with intellectual disabilities competed, was reported missing by the authorities in Orlando (Florida), US media reported on Monday.
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, where this competition takes place, reported that the last time Louis Jacques Wilguens, aged 25 was seen getting off a bus at the Walt Disney complex World Resort on Saturday, one day before he had to return to his home country.
At the time of his disappearance, Wilguens was wearing a white Special Olympics jersey from the Haitian delegation, country facing a serious economic, political and insecurity crisis.
This disappearance occurs after the US authorities began last day 6 the search for six other members of the Haitian team that was participating in the tests in Orlando on those days.
The Osceola Police then indicated that they did not believe that the six disappeared were in danger and that this disappearance was related to a “criminal act”.
Then the organization of the Special Olympics explained that it was an adult with an intellectual disability and five other members of the Haitian delegation, but that they did not compete in Orlando.