The police have also deployed a helicopter. Local residents are also launching a search. The police are calling on witnesses and especially people who have CCTV footage from the area from Wednesday evening to come forward.
The police were alerted around midnight that Gino had not yet returned home. He was last seen in the playground at Hertogenlaan and Zonstraat in Kerkrade between 7.30 pm and 8.30 pm in the Chevremont district.
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The police are looking for the missing Gino with sniffer dogs.
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“We searched for a large part of the night with a drone team and sniffer dogs. We searched all the places where he could logically be. We are still working in the area with a drone. But we are also considering the next steps,” said police spokesman Wim Coenen.
Because the search has so far been unsuccessful, the police have released the message about the missing person via Facebook in the hope that as many people as possible will join the search. The boy left on a black scooter with red handles or red stickers.
He has blond hair, is 130 centimeters tall and wears a red coat with black sleeves. He also wears a red Nike cap, gray jeans and green shoes with a white sole. Coenen: „All scenarios are on the table for us. But this seems quite alarming.”
The police have now also informed the German police. Kerkrade is located on the German border.
Local residents have now indicated that they will conduct a search from the schoolyard of primary school De Steltloper on Zonstraat a little further on Thursday afternoon from 5 p.m.