The mother of the 10-year-old girl, brutally kidnapped Thursday by her father before being found on Friday, left for Denmark to find her daughter there, the Grenoble prosecutor’s office said on Saturday, confirming information from BFMTV.
Contacted by AFP, the Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant was however unable to say when the mother and her daughter would return to France. On Friday, the French Embassy in Copenhagen indicated that it was ready to “proceed with his repatriation to France as quickly as possible”.
The father and an accomplice arrested
The girl was found on Friday afternoon in Rodbyhavn, a town about 100 kilometers south of Copenhagen in Denmark, which is a crossing point for ferries from Germany. According to the Danish police, her captors, the girl’s father and an accomplice, were arrested around 2:30 p.m. and the girl was able to be put “in safety”. Friday evening, Eric Vaillant had indicated that the young girl was “as well as possible after such events”.
The latter indicated on Saturday that the handing over of the suspects to the French authorities could take “from a few days to several weeks”. “It may vary, depending on the position of the defendants, if they agree to be handed over to the French authorities or if they decide to pursue legal remedies in Denmark,” he said.
Judicial information was opened, in particular for aggravated violence on the mother of the child as well as subtraction by ascending and complicity. Arrest warrants had been issued and disseminated under a European Arrest Warrant.