An 11-year-old child was kidnapped in front of her school this Thursday, May 25, in the morning, in Fontaine, near Grenoble. His father is suspected of having organized his kidnapping.
This Thursday, May 25, around 8:30 a.m., an 11-year-old girl was kidnapped by an individual, while her mother was driving her to her school, in the town of Fontaine. The public prosecutor, Éric Vaillant, informed France 3 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes that she had been “abducted by force in front of the boulevard Joliot Curie school in Fontaine by her father and a hooded accomplice who gassed the little girl’s mother with tear gas”.
The information is at this stage very fragmented, but the prosecutor has chosen to clearly implicate the father of the child. An investigation has been opened, it is entrusted to the police of the departmental security of Grenoble: the child, his father and his accomplice are actively sought. The police have deployed numerous human resources and are trying to rely on video surveillance of the scene of the kidnapping to try to find the trace of the kidnappers.
The kidnapping alert not (yet?) triggered
At this stage, the kidnapping alert procedure has not been triggered. It meets very specific criteria. The kidnapping alert is only activated if it concerns a proven kidnapping. It is also necessary that the public prosecutor, the only one authorized to trigger the device, is able to confirm that the life or the physical integrity of the child is in danger and that he has elements of location of the minor. or his captor. These criteria do not currently seem to be met.
According to the elements obtained by France Blue Iserethis abduction would be part of a family dispute related to the right of custody of the child, which is confirmed by The Parisian. The daily adds that mother and daughter no longer saw the man in question, a 53-year-old Swedish-Tunisian, due to domestic violence. The individual is even subject to a ban on leaving the territory.