End of the run. Eya, 10, brutally kidnapped Thursday in Isère by her father and an accomplice, was found Friday in Denmark, where her captors were arrested after the issuance of a European arrest warrant.
“Eya’s mother was able to reach her daughter by telephone via the Danish consulate. The young girl is doing as well as possible after such events, ”said Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant in a press release on Friday evening.
A little earlier, the magistrate had announced at the end of the afternoon that the girl had been found in Denmark with her father and his accomplice. According to danish policethe two men were arrested around 2:30 p.m. in the port town of Rødbyhavn, which faces the German island of Fehmarn.
36 hours of anguish
“The police called me and now I’m going to pick her up. I’m just taking my documents, and I’m going to get her, thank you everyone, “reacted Amira, the girl’s mother, at the microphone of RTLwith emotion.
This twist comes after 36 hours of anguish for the girl’s mother, present at the time of her violent kidnapping on Thursday morning.
Eya, educated in CM2, was kidnapped around 8:15 a.m. while she was walking with her mother in the street to get to her school in Fontaine, a suburb of Grenoble. According to the prosecution, the father “and a hooded accomplice” “gassed the little girl’s mother with tear gas” before seizing the child.
Judicial information was opened in the afternoon, in particular for “aggravated violence” on the mother of the child as well as “abduction by ascendant” and complicity, and arrest warrants were issued and “disseminated in the framework of a European arrest warrant”, according to the prosecution.
The latter had lifted the kidnapping alert in the morning after the judicial police had received around 70 messages.
The girl “grabbed by the hair”
The 33-year-old mother explained at the Dauphiné Libéré Thursday that she was walking with her daughter when they were suddenly blocked by a vehicle, inside which she says she recognized the father of the child.
As the driver sprayed her with tear gas, her “ex-husband grabbed (the child) by the hair and forced her into the back seat with him,” she said. saying they fear he will take her abroad.
An agent of the social center in front of which the facts took place tried to intervene, in vain, indicated the mayor of this commune of 23,000 inhabitants, Franck Longo.
The photos of the girl and the father as well as her identity had been released with the kidnapping alert. The registration of the Peugeot 306 at the wheel of which he is likely to circulate, too.
A listening unit at school
The child, born in Tunisia where the mother had gone to study and married in 2012, has dual Franco-Tunisian nationality. The mother returned to France with her daughter in 2017, according to local press.
“When he started school here, the father was still seeing his daughter. But he couldn’t see her for a long time, ”also said the mayor, adding that the mother had family in Fontaine, especially her sister. According to the prosecution, “the father is suspected of having been violent with the mother in the past”.
On Friday morning, a listening unit was set up by the rectorate within the Jules-Ferry school (200 pupils), where Eya is educated from the large section, in particular for the “students of the class” of the little girl, indicated the rectorate.