Artemida Mystery: Son Of Missing Chinese Translator Speaks Out

The search continues for Yu Ting, the Chinese translator who went missing on the morning of May 20 in Artemida. Her husband remains in constant contact with Greek authorities, while her 33-year-old son, who lives in China, says he’s deeply worried about his mother’s fate.

Speaking exclusively to Live News, he said that ever since contact with his mother stopped, he and the rest of the family have been extremely worried, adding that they can’t travel to Greece or search for her themselves.

He revealed that the last time he spoke with her was 10 days before she disappeared. On May 10, she still replied to him on WeChat and everything seemed completely normal, he said.

She had never mentioned anything about dangerous situations or dangerous people. He said he hopes Greek police and the government can help his family find her.

A quick trip to China

In the interview, the son, named Wang, described a brief trip his mother made to China shortly before she vanished, the last time he saw her in person.

He said she came to China for work in March, traveling with her employer from Greece to work as a translator. She went first to Beijing, and then they met in Jining, in Shandong province. They spent only one night together before he left the next day.

Wang was raised by his grandparents in China, since his mother had moved to Greece while he was still a teenager. Since then he would see her when she traveled back to China, and they spoke online about twice a month through WeChat.

He described his contact with his mother as purely emotional, saying they usually spoke once or twice a month and never discussed work matters. He said she had her own life and he had his, and that he’d never been to Greece so he wouldn’t know anything about her work there.

During some of these video calls he had also seen his mother’s Greek husband, though they never really interacted. He said they don’t speak the same language, but he had seen him appear briefly during video calls, exchanging only a simple hello if the husband happened to be nearby.

He noted that since her disappearance, his mother’s husband now speaks only with his aunt, Yu Ting’s sister.

“The first thing I thought of was kidnapping”

Although contact with his mother wasn’t frequent, the 33-year-old insists she would never disappear the way she did. He said he believes it must be an abduction, a statement he made with visible distress.

He said he believes she was kidnapped, possibly by criminals or people acting outside the law, because his mother would never simply stop showing signs of life or stop communicating with the family. He said she had never done anything like this before, and that even if there were personal reasons behind it, she wouldn’t have cut off contact with them entirely.

Whatever was happening, he said, she would have told them. Now that contact has suddenly stopped, he believes only outside factors could explain it.

The son also said Yu Ting had never expressed any wish to return to China. She had been married in Greece for many years, loved her work, and had built a life there.

He added that he knew people owed her large sums of money, though he had never heard of any specific conflicts. He said there are people who owe his mother significant amounts, noting that in her early years working in sales, some people had defrauded her and left debts unpaid.