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Mysteries mount in hunt for vanished Budapest teen
The 18-year-old Mátyás Egressy vanished on his way home in the early hours of Saturday. He left the Ötkert club in Budapest city centre but never reached his family home, instead spotted at various points across the city. Somehow he ended up on the Chain Bridge, though precisely what happened there remains unclear. The search presses on, yet ever more sinister clues cloud his whereabouts.
Teenager wanders Budapest’s streets
Family say Mátyás was set to study at an Italian university, where he had already secured a place, while leading an active, sporty life as a tennis player at MTK. His disappearance has left them utterly baffled.
The teenager set off from Ötkert after 2am on Saturday, but failed to return to his family house in Buda’s 11th district. The place issued a statement yesterday, claiming the young reveller slipped away “independently, without any external meddling”, with no red flags emerging to prompt intervention. The management has vowed to cooperate fully with the authorities amid the unfolding probe.
His father has pieced together his route: he dozed off on a night bus, overshot to Örs Vezér Square, then Csömör, before doubling back to Kossuth Square and the Chain Bridge. Several witnesses encountered him; they described him as disoriented, as if fleeing something.
One eyewitness, likely the last to see him so far, recounted how he was frantically searching for his phone at Örs Vezér Square, in a state of panic, his clothes muddied and clearly unaware of his surroundings. He kept repeating that it was all over and he would take his own life.
even Such a nightmare for the family. After years of raising children into young adulthood, choices made by them or others rob the future that was invested into. Hear such stories all the time…ppl going to nighclubs or rural areas alone…or worse, leaving with strangers instead of staying w. friends who include a designated driver who consumes no booze that night….such careless lifestyles, so many eveil ppl out there to make oneself a victim of. It just breaks my heart what happens to people. That he was seen to be disorented and no one called for parameditcs or cops is sad. Sometimes even adults need to be saved from themselves.