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Montreal police said Friday they are looking to speak with a woman who was in the same park where a 10-year-old boy was last seen before he went missing last March.
Police don’t consider the woman a witness to the disappearance of Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou, but are hopeful she can provide information about the hours leading up to the last time he was seen, said Insp. Ian Lafreniere.
Investigators received a tip a few days ago describing a woman smoking a cigarette between 11 and 11:30 a.m. in a north-end Montreal park on March 12, the day Kouakou went missing.
“She won’t help us to find Ariel,” Lafreniere told reporters. “This is really more about knowing what happened, were there were any kids playing by the river?”
Another witness, also a woman, told police early on in the investigation that she spoke to Kouakou about 2 p.m. at Parc Des Bateliers, which borders the Riviere des Prairies.
The young boy had left his home in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough earlier in the day to visit a friend.
Police say they believe that the Kouakou fell into a river and drowned, but his father has insisted that he was abducted.
Divers searched the area as recently as the end of May but did not find any trace of the missing boy.
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