Justice triggered the kidnapping alert device after the disappearance of a two-year-old girl on Tuesday near Tarbes, but she was finally found safe and sound an hour later, according to the police.
After her day’s work, a mother parked her car in front of the Séméac school, near Tarbes, to pick up her son, who had spent the day at the summer camp, leaving her daughter inside, installed in her car seat in the back seat, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
With the keys left in the ignition, a thief stole the vehicle and fled.
On leaving school with her son, the mother noticed that the car and her daughter had disappeared and alerted the police.
Abandonment of the vehicle
The vehicle was found shortly after in front of the Lannemezan gendarmerie, still in the Hautes-Pyrénées, about 40 km from Séméac.
According to the police, the thief probably noticed the presence of the girl in the back of the car and decided to abandon the vehicle in front of the gendarmerie.