Bremervörde (Lower Saxony) – The police have the active one The search for missing six-year-old Arian from Bremervörde has been discontinued. But the team from the “K9 Pro Missing Person Search” association doesn’t give up.
K9 was commissioned privately and used specially trained sniffer dogs – including Bloodhound-Labrador mix Knut – to pick up Arians trail. Nine team members and twelve sniffer dogs have been in action since May 1st.
“We’re trying to put together the puzzle pieces we find. The police “finished their search and then we picked up where we left off on the first day,” explains K9 operations manager Alexandra Grunow in an interview with RTL.
Arian (6) is still missing
The sniffer dogs were already there that evening Arian’s disappearance (April 22) on site, just three quarters of an hour after the autistic boy left his parents’ home.
“However, area search dogs would have been more useful at night than our sniffer dogs. They are simply slower in the dark in the forest,” Grunow told RTL. She asked the police to use area search dogs, but they were not used.
On April 22nd around 7:30 p.m. Arian left his parents’ house Lower Saxony Run away. Up to 1,200 helpers searched for him for a week – without success.
Now the dogs are trying to pick up Arian’s scent – unfortunately under difficult conditions: “We are in nature. So many people ran across the trail, and many dogs ran over it afterwards,” explains the 53-year-old. “We’re trying to reconstruct the trail we walked.”
Sniffer dog Knut at work
The dog handlers and their animals are usually called in by private individuals, but also by the police, when missing people remain missing even after an official search.
The trained K9 four-legged friends are trained to missing people can still be detected after four to 28 days. Your search for little Arian follows a private mission. However, the search team is working in close consultation with the police and sharing its findings with investigators and the boy’s family.
Alexandra Grunow to RTL: “We are relatively far. I think our search will be completed soon.” Will little Arian finally be found?