On May 25, Said managed to get in touch with his friends in the Basque Country and ask for help. Taking advantage of his brother’s departure to Spain, he used the phone number of a Saharawi friend and his Facebook account to contact his friends. “Until today I have not left the house,” he said in his message, denouncing that he was “locked up and held incommunicado” and that his brother was beating him. In the message, he asked a second friend to sue his family for being abducted.

He listens to what his friend said in the message, and on June 9 he denounces Said’s family at the Eibar police station for illegal detention and efforts to force them to marry. The newspaper El Diario confirmed that the complaint alleges that the woman is being held hostage by her family in order to force her to marry. A month after the complaint was filed, on July 7, Said’s friends called a press conference and demonstrations to denounce the kidnapping.

After the case was made public, Said contacted his friends again, asking them to withdraw their complaint on the following occasion. The disclosure of the complaint includes the fact that he was frightened by death threats made against him by his brother.

Djandra Said went on vacation with her mother to the Sahara to visit her family. The trip took a month, but it ended in the kidnapping. With his passport and mobile phone removed, his family prevents him from turning around.

The Delegation of the Saharawis of Euskadi assures that the authorities of the camps have been informed of the case so that they can analyze the situation of the young person. They testify that they have attempted to persuade Said's brother to return his sister's documents, and that they must speak to the hostage and his family. If Said wants to return, they want to convince the family to let him do so “in the shortest possible time,” they explain.