The father of little Hamza, who had abducted his 12-year-old boy from his maternal assistant on Friday in Fouquières-lès-Lens, in Pas-de-Calais, leading to the triggering of a “kidnapping alert”, must be presented this Monday to the prosecutor of Bethune, said the prosecution.
The child had been placed with a maternal assistant as part of the separation from his parents, on a decision, on December 14, by a children’s judge, considering “a danger to the health, safety or education of the child. ‘child’, details the floor.
Found the next morning
A kidnapping alert was triggered on Saturday morning by the Ministry of the Interior, after the father, contacted by his son, presented himself Friday evening to the maternal assistant to remove the latter, without violence. The child had been found safe and sound on Saturday morning.
“From the investigation, it follows that tensions have arisen between the parents, divorced, concerning Hamza”, indicates the prosecution, mentioning “reciprocal complaints” since the summer. In August, the father and his son “had been prevented by the Belgian authorities from embarking for the United Arab Emirates, where the family had lived in the past and where the father had settled again”, following opposition. from the mother to leaving the country.
At the beginning of September, the father had not handed over the child to his mother after “his right of visitation and accommodation”. “He then began a three-month journey of wandering through France with the child,” explains the prosecution, which had decided on the provisional placement of Hamza in early December.
The investigation started following Friday’s kidnapping led justice to note “the reiteration of the facts, in defiance of a court decision” and to consider prosecution.