Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Talleu

On the 11th of December, Jean-Baptiste is know 27years old. Let us think about him on this particular time. It has now been more than a year he's gone missing. His parents, still in Pondicherry, are doing anything in their power to find him.

NICOLETTA godmother of the AJB

Jean-Philippe GURECKI, mayor of Villers, confirmed Nicoletta (famous french singer) accepts to be the godmother of the AJB(Association "Alert disapearance of Jean-Baptiste Talleu)
In her current tour, Nicoletta will stop by Nancy, which gave Jean-Philippe Gurecki the idea to
associate her to our actions towards finding Jean-Baptiste.
Nicoletta is very happy to be able to take part.
She's going to do whatever possible to help us, among other things, sending a mail to the Indian embassador.
She intends to talk about the disapearance of JB after her concerts.

Thanks to Villers's mayor, and Nicoletta now, we are starting to be known to very important people...
Thanks again for each one of these precious involvements.

Follow-up of the Petition - Indian Embassy

Sophie Sebirot-Nossoff, Villers-les-Nancy's deputy mayor tells us, concerning the handing over of the petition to the Indian embassador in Paris:
"I called the Indian embassy to take an appointement with the embassador to give him the petition.
Unfortunately there are no way we can meet him before the 12th January at 11.30am.
Pascal Jacquemin, mayor of Villers, agrees to accompany the representatives of the association to Paris on the 12th of January.

We are also trying to contact a Meurthe-et-Moselle deputy (member of parliament) to go there with them.

Thanks to the mayor of Villers and all his team who are working very hard to help the family of Jean-Baptiste.
You can still sign, and make others sign the petition until begining of January.

Thanks everybody for their support.

Click here to access the petition and sign online:
version you can print and sign or online version

Press Conference invitation

CONSULAT GENERAL DE FRANCE
A PONDICHERY ET CHENNAI
___________________

Pondicherry 4th December 2008

PRESS NOTE

The parents of Mr Jean-Baptiste Talleu, desire meeting the press to talk about their son who was travelling through India in a bicycle and went missing on the 5th of December 2007.

He has since been noticed in Varkala, (Kerala) and in Pondicherry.

A press conference has been organised at the Press Club of Pondicherry at 11.00 a.m on Friday the 5th of December. They will provide detailed information and materials such as photos of the missing son to the press on this occasion.

Therefore the reporters of the press and visual media are requested to be present on the occasion.

Attacks in India

Many of you are worried to know Pierre and Marie-Claire Talleu in India, considering the serious attacks in Mumbai.

We dit not hear from them, but they are very far from Mumbai and these events.

As soon as we can, we will  reassure you completely.

Thank you very much for your worries and signs of friendship you gave.

Warmly, 

Elisabeth de Ruffray.

Treasurer of the association "AJB"

Edit: We finally got in touch with Marie-Claire and Pierre, they are fine, they did not even hear from the events in Mumbai. The Monsoon is very strong and does not allow them to do much but they are doing well. They should be staying in Pondichery until the end of December.

The research program established while visiting the consul

On our meeting with the Consul, we established our program of research:

-English classes at the Alliance francaise,

-Contact with the police,

-help for media coverage,

-posters,

-T-shirts with the head of Jean-Baptiste (idea of the press attaché)

-local TV and newspapers,

-press conference as soon as our english will be better.

Also to her (the Consul): a great thank you for the precious help, which allowed us not to scatter our actions, and thus saving us a lot of time.

The french TV News report: presented by Marie-Claire through her journal

(See the post from 20th November : "Parents of Jean-Baptiste in Pondichery)

Lise and Julie, two journalists from TF1 (french TV channel), arrived from Delhi the day before our arrival to cover for 2 days our arrival in India.

Friday 14th of November

They start by interviewing Sister Therese.

They then find us a tanslator, after our misfortune at the Alliance Francaise.

They follow us to the Radj Lodge inn, where a witness saw a cyclist resembling Jean-Baptiste. Unfortunately, checking the registers (already done by the consulate) does not lead anywhere: no sign of JB's name.

The innkeeper does not remember any cyclist.

We all go (taxi driver, translator, journalists, and us) have lunch in front of the see to rest and recover from the stress.

Saturday 15th of November
We meet, the morning after, to put up posters. The rickshaw drivers spontaneously ask to put posters on their rickshaws. Their kindness is very heart-warming.

10am: meeting with the consul, who accepted to meet us, even though it was saturday. We evaluate what could be done to help us.

Around 11am, last shot, on the beach, feeling very much down...

We leave the two journalists at the beach coffee shop, they tell us, before leaving about our luck to have such faith, which helps us very much to go through this ordeal. They go back to New Delhi with the first plane. We thank them with all our hearts: their help and the impulse they gave us were very substancial. They were also very nice to us.

http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/jt/0,,4160544,00-disparu-il-y-a-un-an-en-inde-et-toujours-introuvable-.html