Disappeared Frenchman surfaces in Wattala

21 October 2015 06:38 am

A 50-year-old Frenchman, who had disappeared for two days, has been found in Wattala heavily intoxicated and unconscious.

The proprietors of the hotel in which the foreigner in question was accommodated, had lodged a complaint with the Kelaniya Police on Sunday (18) morning when he did not return to his room since he left the hotel premises Saturday afternoon.  

According to the complaint, the Frenchman had left the hotel at around 11 am on Saturday and had reportedly been under the influence of alcohol.

No information on him had surfaced until Monday when a caller had informed the Mahabage Police about a foreign national who had been heavily intoxicated and lying unconscious.

Investigations had revealed it’s the same Frenchman who had been reported missing from Kelaniya and had been immediately admitted to the Ragama hospital.

Upon being discharged from the hospital yesterday, he had been escorted by the Police to the French embassy in Colombo along with all his belongings that had been left at the Kelaniya hotel.