After their daughter was kidnapped while on holiday in Paris last month, a Cavan family is dealing with inconsolable grief. Amber Victoria Palm, who was 17 at the time, disappeared on the last day of her trip to Coupvrey, France, where they were staying at Disney’s Santa Fe Hotel. She had been traveling with her parents and her younger brother. Amber is believed to be with a 17-year-old boy whom her friends claim she had been communicating with online for several weeks before he disappeared.
Amber’s mother Mactalene described her distress saying: “We are trying to stay strong but it has been incredibly difficult. Amber and I had a strong bond. I just need to know that she is safe. My girl should be home. She is my girl and she is still a minor.” Amber Victoria Palm’s case remains unsolved and authorities are actively searching for her. The night before Amber disappeared, everything seemed normal, according to Mactalene. While Amber and her younger brother opted to stay at the hotel, she and her husband, Dinnis, went to Disneyland to see the light parade. “When we came back, they were both in the room, watching TV on their phones. She asked about our plans for the next day,” Mactalene recalled.
The family’s plan was to go to bed early, get up early, have breakfast the next day and return to the hotel at 2 in the afternoon to catch the bus that would take them to the airport for their flight to Ireland. Around 3 a.m., Dinnis woke up feeling unwell. She noticed that the bathroom door was closed and she suspected that her daughter might be inside it. Mactalene continued the story: “I went to knock on the bathroom door to ask him how much longer it would take. I rang the doorbell, but there was no answer. “When I opened the door, she just wasn’t there.” The family panicked and immediately started searching for her at the hotel, but her efforts were in vain. There was a gas station next to the hotel. Mactalene went there to check if Amber had been to the store, but she was nowhere to be found.
Police have informed the family of 17-year-old Amber Victoria Palm, who disappeared during a family trip to Disneyland Paris last month, that she could be “anywhere in the Schengen area” at the moment. Amber Victoria Palm, along with her parents and her younger brother, had moved to County Cavan in March the previous year before disappearing in August while on holiday in Paris.
Since her disappearance on August 10, the family, originally from South Africa, has been desperately trying to locate her. On August 7, Amber Victoria was last seen leaving the hotel in the middle of the night. Surveillance footage revealed that she met a young man at a nearby gas station before leaving with him. According to some of her friends, she had been communicating with this young man online before her vacation. French authorities informed her mother, Mactalene, that the young man had arrived in France the day before by boat. Despite maintaining contact with some of her friends, Amber Victoria has not been heard from since August 10. Mactalene expressed her deep concern, saying: “I have no idea. I just need to make sure she’s safe. Or she just call me or something.”
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