An Ontario family is still looking for months after their son disappeared during a ski trip In the Laurentine mountains of Quebec.
“It’s difficult,” said Chris Toman to Global News on Wednesday while fighting tears in a hotel room in Mont TremblantA ski resort about two hours north of Montreal.
Toman looked for his son, Liam Toman22 years old, who disappeared during the night in February during a ski trip on weekends there.
“Meanwhile, we have covered hundreds of kilometers in the region, up to 20 kilometers from the station,” said Kathleen Toman, Liam’s mother, adding that eight groups of people have searched forests and swamps.
“We had training on how to follow and how to do this type of work,” she said, “we therefore understand what to look for and how to be safe.”
His son’s wallet was found in mid-March near the place where he was seen for the last time early on the morning of February 2.
Toman was released that evening at the bar of the popular complex called the little caribou.
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“We saw video sequences inside the bar, then we saw him leave the bar, then we see him talking to people”, Liam’s father told Global back in early April.
“He accidentally gave me a text, and I think he was trying to send an SMS to his only friend who had gone. And from the text, we checked that he meant “meet me outside”. “
This text was sent at 3:16
The family said that he had not used his phone or access to his bank account or one of his social media accounts since that time. They only discovered that he was missing the next day around six o’clock in one of his friends during the ski trip who said they had not heard of Liam for 3 am
Provincial police have walked on foot, in the water and by helicopter. On April 30, the Quebec Safety Search was partly concentrated in a marsh near the P1 car park next to the Ski village.
“We didn’t find anything,” said Kathleen.
The close friend of Liam, Shireen Khamissa, also pushed online research via a website and a Facebook group She created.
Anyone with information can contact their family and friends online or provincial police (SQ).
The Toman family says that she is convinced that someone knows something and that he suspects an unfair game. An element of the investigation disconcerts Liam’s father.
“Why (the) owners of the village or the complex have not more surveillance cameras and more work cameras?” He said.
He said he thought that if there were more surveillance sequences, Liam’s last spell would be easier to trace.
“We don’t want other parents to go through others (something like that) because of this limitation.”
Global News questioned the complex about their surveillance cameras, but a spokesman said he was unable to comment on the current police investigation.
An SQ officer confirmed that their probe was underway and that he had not excluded a criminal affair.
Khamissa told Global that she did not want her friend to be considered another statistics. “It is more than a simple image you see,” said the 22 -year -old. “He’s a whole person. He is our favorite person.”
