investigation Abducted from Saint-Etienne University Hospital, the child has still not been found this Saturday early evening
Police. Illustration. — SICCOLI PATRICK/SIPA
A man was arrested and placed on guard at; view Saturday at; Saint-Etienne the day after the kidnapping by her parents of a six-month-old girl, entrusted to social assistance to childhood, said a source close to the investigation. According to the latter, it would be someone close to the couple. On Friday, other members of the parents’ entourage had been also heard, some of whom are under custody; seen, then released.
Abducted from the CHU of Saint-Etienne, the child has still not been found this Saturday at the beginning of the evening, specified; the police who had momentarily located his parents' vehicle a few hours earlier. The little girl, presented as a very premature baby, was in care on a respirator when she was kidnapped, late Friday afternoon, from the pediatric department of the North Hospital of Saint-Etienne by her parents of foreign origin, who deceived her. the vigilance of the staff of the establishment, according to the same source. childhood
On Saturday, a police operation was launched on national territory to find the girl, according to the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office. The abduction alert was not received. triggered because the prosecution considered that the criteria, including that of endangering the child, “were not met”. “An order prohibiting the child’s leaving the country has been issued. taken,” the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Saint-Etienne, André; Merle, who entrusted to safety department of the Loire a preliminary investigation for “removal of a child from the authority to which he was entrusted”.
”This little girl is the subject of a temporary placement by a juvenile judge with the Social Aid at the hospital. childhood due to educational deficiencies identified in his family,” the hospital in view of his state of health.