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Spirited away? The baffling mystery of the teen tourist who vanished in the dawn

Steve Braunias
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Senior Writer·NZ Herald·
31 mins to read

Steve Braunias investigates the disappearance of a French teenager.

Eloi Rolland is up and about on his feet in the darkness before dawn, a solitary figure waiting at the bus stop at 87 Mokoia Rd in Birkenhead on Auckland's North Shore. His movements will be tracked later in the police investigation Operation Cookeville – "French national, 18 years old" - but right now, on a Saturday morning in late summer, no one is watching, no one else is around. He's

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