The 10-year-old girl, kidnapped by her father in Fontaine, in Isère, has not yet been found, but the prosecution has decided to lift the kidnapping alert.
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Ihe kidnapping alert concerning little Eya, kidnapped by her father on Thursday, has been lifted by the Grenoble prosecutor’s office. However, the 10-year-old girl has “not been found”. The prosecution nevertheless decided to lift the kidnapping alert triggered Thursday evening, on the grounds that “the elements collected thanks to this alert are being exploited” and that “the investigation is continuing”. According to the Grenoble prosecutor, who spoke on BFMTV, the elements in the possession of the investigators “suggest that the father, his accomplice and the child are now abroad”. Probably in Tunisia or Sweden.
“The European police services and the French liaison magistrates stationed in the countries to which the father is likely to go are on alert,” said the prosecution.
The girl had been kidnapped around 8:15 a.m. Thursday in Fontaine, Isère, while she was walking with her mother in the street, in front of a school. The 53-year-old father, “and a hooded accomplice” “gassed the little girl’s mother with tear gas”, detailed Thursday the public prosecutor of Grenoble, Éric Vaillant.
The photos of the girl and the father as well as her identity had been broadcast in the kidnapping alert. The registration of the Peugeot 306 at the wheel of which he is also likely to be driving.
The mother and her daughter in France since 2017
In a testimony to Dauphiné liberatedthe mother explained that she was walking with her daughter to school after finding a flat tire on her car for the second time in two days.
According to her account, they were suddenly blocked by a vehicle, inside which she says she recognized the father of the child.
As the driver sprayed her with tear gas, her “ex-husband grabbed (the child) by the hair and forced her into the back seat with him,” she said. saying they fear he will take her abroad.
The child, born in Tunisia where the mother had gone to study and married in 2012, has dual Franco-Tunisian nationality. The mother returned to France with her daughter in 2017, according to the Dauphiné liberated.