A 22-YEAR-OLD Erasmus student missing in Paris since May 1 has been found alive, according to French police – despite everyone fearing the worst after her rucksack was discovered in a park five days later.
Natalia Sánchez Uribe's friends reported her disappearance after she vanished whilst moving her things into a Spanish friend's flat after her rental contract, signed in September, had expired.
The young woman had been reported as feeling 'alone' and saying she was convinced she was being 'followed', but until she vanished, nobody took her seriously as she was described as a 'nervous person', even though she was used to being away from home – she spent a year working in London and is now at university in Barcelona, a long way from her family's native stamping ground in Granada or her parents' home in Mallorca.
Later, the discovery this Monday, May 6 of her backpack in the park near the Sorbonne, the prestigious Parisian university where Natalia was studying business and economics during her year out, heightened concerns for her safety.
She was found today, safe and well, but 'confused and disoriented', and has been taken to hospital.
As yet, the circumstances of her being found have not been clarified, although she is not thought to be in any danger to her health.
