Daniel ‘JoJo’ disappeared two weeks ago. The wife of the former national bodyboard champion says she is “completely alone” and asks Portugal for help: “Thai police are not helping” and “no searches were carried out”.
The Portuguese citizen Daniel ‘JoJo Mariani’ dos Santosformer national bodyboard champion, it disappeared in Thailand for almost two weeks “under mysterious circumstances”, says his partner, who launched an appeal on social media.
“Former national bodyboard champion Daniel ‘JoJo Mariani’ dos Santos has been missing in Thailand for around two weeks. His wife has been using Facebook to raise awareness about the situation and ask for help, and recently made a post in a group dedicated to national bodyboarding to mobilize the Portuguese bodyboarding community and try to put pressure on authorities to collaborate”, the surfing information portal, Surftotal.
“Jojo is missing in Koh Phangan Islandin Thailand, where we live and raise our two children, Ocean, 8 years old, and Sky, 2 years old,” the woman wrote, adding that the surfer “has been missing for almost two weeks, in mysterious circumstances”.
“We are afraid that he went to sea and may not have returned. I found your belongings [passaporte, carteira, bilhete de avião] under a tree many days after he disappeared. Thai police are not helping much — so we need to press”, appealed the woman, who offered a reward to anyone who discovers Daniel’s whereabouts.
“The last time I saw him was on the 17th, I was with him at a hostel downtown and he was supposed to come home at the end of the dayas always, to take care of the boys (Sky, 2 years old, and Ocean, 8), but he didn’t show up”, the former surfing champion’s wife also says to: “From then on I never heard anything from him again.“.
“It’s been a long time and of course there are many scenarios and hypotheses that come to mind, but I have two children and as a mother I don’t want to think about those hypotheses. But it’s difficult… This is not an island where you can disappear like that, there are many animals and other dangers lurking”, says Avalon, who only found her belongings thanks to a locator that her husband had in his wallet.
“He had a tracker in his wallet, he was lost and that’s why we used it to check his whereabouts. There was his wallet, passports, a bag, his surfing clothes and diving equipment, but nothing else”, Avalon reveals to the magazine.
The woman just decided to present complaint to Thai authorities two days after disappearance by JoJo. Since then, two weeks have passed and nothing has been done to find him, she says.
“No searches were carried out, they didn’t want to know about the material I found. I feel completely alonelost. I’ve been putting up posters around the island with my children, but at the moment I’m exhausted.” “My children are Portuguese citizens, Daniel is Portuguese, I ask you not to leave me alone and help me find out what happened to him.”
Your father, the actor Geoffrey Giuliano — and who recently appeared in the Netflix series Squid Game — also lives in Thailand and is taking advantage of his international influence as best he can to launch the 51-year-old Portuguese through several videos shared on his social networks. think that because I was an actor or had done this project with a global dimension, I was well paid, nothing like that”, he explained.
“It would never disappear like this”
Some of Daniel’s close friends think it’s strange. “Daniel would never disappear like that. He was the main caregiver for his children and has a huge passion for the boys”, he tells Flash! a person close to the former surfer in Portugal, who says that he was, however, closely monitored to treat some mental health problems.
Despite that, “does not have a suicidal profiledoes not fit with the love he has for his children. We believe that there is something that is not being told well in this story. And that’s what’s needed to understand what happened.”
Government monitors situation
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MNE) is monitoring the situation through the Portuguese Embassy in Thailand and is also in contact with the family of the missing Portuguese, an official MNE source told Lusa.
“The Embassy is monitoring the situation and is in contact with the family”, confirmed the same official source.
However, one has already been created to join efforts to help find Daniel dos Santos, which has more than 400 members.
