The extradition procedure is “in progress”, announced the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office 20 minutes this Wednesday, concerning the couple from Girondins suspected of having wanted to sacrifice their 5-year-old child in the Sahara last December.
The Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office specifies that it opened an investigation on December 19, following a call from an “applicant” worried about the son of a couple of friends, aged 5, “whose father held delusional comments and who planned to go to the Maghreb in the company of his wife and their son to undertake a form of initiatory journey” continues the prosecution.
“Well integrated into the village”
The prosecution opened a judicial investigation on December 20 into charges of “arrest, kidnapping, sequestration or arbitrary detention of a minor hostage aged 15 to facilitate a crime or misdemeanor” against the couple, residing in the commune of Carcans, on the Atlantic coast, northwest of Bordeaux. The investigation was entrusted to the Lesparre-Médoc Research Brigade and the Bordeaux Research Section.
“Well integrated into the village, they were the founders of a large association, a beautiful music school in the town in which they had up to more than 250 students,” the mayor of Carcans, Patrick Meiffren, evoking his “astonishment” when the sub-prefect announced to him their arrest, confirming information from South West.
“Psychiatric problems”
The arrest took place on December 21 in the port of Algeciras, in southern Spain, as the couple was about to board a ferry by car for Tangier in Morocco, the Guardia said on Saturday civil.
The two parents, who “had psychiatric problems” and were the subject of a European arrest warrant for “kidnapping a minor”, had “the intention of assassinating their five-year-old son in the Sahara because they believed to be possessed”, thus wanting to “sacrifice” him, added the Guardia civil.
The child entrusted to Spanish social services
The father of the child is 39 years old and the mother is 30 years old. “The mother is unknown to the courts, the father is known to the judicial institution but for old facts unrelated to the facts accused today” further indicates the prosecution 20 minutes.
Both parents are “currently incarcerated in Spain”. They are in pre-trial detention in Botafuegos prison in Algeciras, awaiting a judge’s decision, the Guardia Civil told AFP. The child “was entrusted to Spanish social services following a temporary placement order issued urgently by the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office”. His return to France is also “being finalized. »