The ten-year-old girl who was kidnapped by her father on Thursday in Isère has returned to France, her mother’s lawyer Mélanie Muridi said on Monday. Eya was found on Friday afternoon in Denmark, about a hundred kilometers south of Copenhagen, at a crossing point for ferries from Germany.
The little girl “is happy to have found her mother, they have returned to France and the important thing is that they are together”, underlined the lawyer.
Mélanie Muridi added that the child would not return to school immediately without specifying whether she had returned to her home. Mother and daughter “need to get back to normal life, away from the hustle and bustle so they can move towards a bit of normalcy,” she explained.
The girl was abducted on Thursday while walking with her mother on her way to school. According to the prosecution, the father “and a hooded accomplice” had “gassed the little girl’s mother with tear gas” before seizing the child.
According to the Danish police, her kidnappers had been arrested and the little girl had been taken “to safety”.
Friday evening, the public prosecutor in Grenoble Eric Vaillant had indicated that the little girl was doing “as well as possible after such events” and the French embassy had dispatched a team to Rodbyhavn “to facilitate the process between the mother of Eya and the Danish authorities”.
Eric Vaillant clarified on Saturday that the handing over of the two suspects to the French authorities could take “from a few days to several weeks”.
The elements in the possession of the investigators suggested that the father, his accomplice and the child had gone abroad, with possible destinations Sweden and Tunisia, a country corresponding to the dual nationality of the father, aged 53.
Judicial information was opened, in particular for aggravated violence against the mother of the child, as well as for subtraction by ascending and complicity.