Christian Atsu’s wife Marie-Claire Rupio revealed when she last spoke to her husband, who has been missing since a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey.
She claims that the day before the game, Onsu, who on February 5, 2023, scored his first goal for Turkish-based Hatayspor, called home and spoke with their kids.
In her first public interview with the BBC since the disappearance of her husband, she said “He spoke to the children last time on Saturday morning, that was the last time that I heard from him.”
The football player’s wife revealed that she learned through the news that her spouse was trapped under earthquake debris.
“I had a lot of missed calls on my phone from his sister and she just told me, and then I read the news,” she said.
Marie-Claire Rupio is hopeful that her husband will be discovered alive after learning that earlier claims that he had been pulled from the rubble were untrue.
She has thus urged Christian Atsu’s club, the Turkish government, and the British government to intensify their rescue operations for those who are buried beneath the wreckage.
“All I can say is that for me I know the rescuers are trying their best working day and night to rescue everybody. I just feel for everybody who is like me and my children being in the unknown not knowing whether their family (relative) is alive or not. I will just appeal to the Hatayspor Club and the Turkish authorities and the British government to send the equipment to get the people that are still trapped under the rubble out, especially my partner and the father of my children,” she said.
