Missing Irish man last seen over two weeks ago found alive in Paris
It is understood that the 38-year-old was found by emergency services in the French capital on Friday and is currently receiving emergency medical treatment.
Confirming the news to Belfast Live on Friday, Robert's brother Louis said: "Rab has been found by emergency services and is requiring ongoing emergency treatment. While he is not out of the woods yet, we are just glad he is alive.
"As a family, we would ask for privacy in the time ahead as we deal with the situation."
Robert had been missing since he missed his connecting flight at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Thursday, July 17. He had travelled there from Benin in West Africa, where he had been working on an oil rig.
Robert was initially due to travel home on July 30, but it has since been established that he left the oil rig early for reasons that remain unclear.
Mr Kincaid, 38, from Tullycarnet in East Belfast, had been due to board a connecting flight to Dublin. He later told a friend he was in the airport bar after missing his flight, but his family were met with silence when they tried to contact him.
Two FaceTime calls to his phone on the evening of July 17 were answered by unknown individuals, one man, then a woman and there had been no trace of him since.
Robert's family travelled to Paris on Wednesday to work directly with the French authorities to locate their brother, travelling across the city and putting up missing persons posters.
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