Family of east Belfast man missing in France travelling to Paris
Robert Kincaid from Tullycarnet was last seen at Charles de Gaulle airport on July, 17 but never boarded his flight
Last updated 30th Jul 2025
The family and friends of an east Belfast man missing in France for almost two weeks now are travelling there to look for him.
Robert Kincaid from Tullycarnet was last seen at Charles de Gaulle airport on July, 17 but never boarded his flight.
The 38-year-old had been travelling home after working on an oil rig in Benin in west Africa.
He had flown to Paris for his connecting flight to Dublin and spoke to a friend on a video call from the airport bar.
That is the last anyone heard from him.
His dad Robert known as Rab says his family are worried sick, after an unknown man and woman answered his phone when they tried to contact him:
"Robert travels all over the world on the oil rigs but the thing is he always keeps in touch with his mother, me and especially his friends.
"We are all distraught, we're out of our minds.
"His mate rang him at ten to eight that night and was talking to him and then after that no one has ever had contact with Robert.
"We tried to ring him again at half ten and some French guy answered the phone and then after that someone tried to ring him again and there was a lady answered the phone speaking French and there's been nothing since.
"Everything has been tried whatsapps, phone messages, text messages and nothing, no reply no nothing, his phone is completely dead."
Robert has been reported missing to the PSNI and the British embassy in Paris and his brother and friend are travelling to the city today.
Rab tells us about the investigation so far:
"The British Embassy has been brilliant, they've been helping us a lot.
"They've confirmed that he's in no police stations, no hospitals, no medical centres and they've confirmed that he was in the airport and he didn't board his flight.
"That's about all they can tell us at the minute."
Rab described Robert as 'a big, friendly guy' and says the family are 'out of their minds' with worry:
"Robert's just a big, happy-go-lucky-boy.
"He just loves life, he gets off the rigs and he goes for a couple of pints and the thing is he's very friendly when he gets the drink in him.
"He's maybe met somebody in the airport and went 'come on we'll go out for a drink' or something like that.
"We don't know what's happened to be honest but he's a big friendly guy and he would drink with anybody and have a pint for a bit of craic.
"Everybody likes his company to sit with and he would tell stories about the oil rigs and it's just out of character for him to disappear.
"Totally out of character."