Family comes searching for French cyclist

NOT A CLUE: Jean Baptiste's mother and brother are in currently in Mumbai looking for him.

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Mumbai: A young French cyclist Jean Baptiste Talleu went missing in Mumbai last December, his family filed a complaint with the police here in March. Now his family is in India, having lost all hope in their official complaint.

Jean Baptiste’s mother Marie Claire Talleu is not used to speaking English but she has been exhausting herself for the last few days using a foreign language to tell people about her missing son Jean Baptiste, a young Frenchman who was cycling around the world and went missing a few days after he landed in Mumbai in December 2007.

"We waited and waited on 11th, it was his birthday so I sent him a card through the Internet, but he never opened it, says" Marie Claire Talleu.

Jean mailed his mother regularly but after landing in Mumbai the last that she heard of him was through his bank account. He withdrew Rs 10,000 from an ATM in Goregaon on December 5.

His family registered a complaint with the Mumbai police only three months later in March, but they too have drawn a blank.

Jean Baptiste's brother Vincent says, "They told us they had done everything but got no clues about him.”

Left without too many options the family is now offering a reward of Rs 2 lakh to anyone who can offer information about Jean Baptiste.

Marie and Vincent now plan to put up posters all over Mumbai — hoping that someone who has seen him will come to the fore. Let's hope that the right people are listening.