This Thursday, May 25 in the morning, in Fontaine, in Isère, little Eya, aged 10, was kidnapped by her father, while she was walking with her mother in the street.
[Updated May 25, 2023 at 7:01 p.m.] In Fontaine, in the suburbs of Grenoble, in Isère, Eya, a 10-year-old girl, was abducted in front of her school, by her father, while she was accompanied by his mother. According to the public prosecutor of Grenoble, Éric Vaillant, which Le Parisien echoed, around 8:15 a.m., the father, accompanied by “a hooded accomplice” “gassed with tear gas the mother of the little girl”.
For her part, Eya’s mother gave herself up to the liberated Dauphiné, to tell her version of the facts. She explained that she accompanied her daughter to school because a tire on her car had been punctured, for the second time in two days. As they walked, a car blocked them, and her “ex-husband grabbed [the child] by the hair and forced him into the backseat with him”, while the mother was gas. She now says she is “burned all over”.
According to a search notice published on social networks, the father had been prohibited from approaching the mother and her daughter since 2018, and the little girl would be protected by a ban on leaving the territory until she reached majority.
Very quickly, the father of the child is identified as one of the two kidnappers. According to the mother, it is positioned at the rear of the vehicle. “I immediately recognized him since he was with his face uncovered,” she told Dauphiné. She also clarified a context of tension between her and her ex-husband, a 53-year-old Swedish-Tunisian. Married in 2012 in Tunisia, the couple then saw the birth of little Eya a few months later, in October. But the idyll is cut short. “I learned late that he had falsified papers so that our daughter also had a Swedish passport,” she said, referring to violence that led her to return to France with her daughter in 2017.
Since then, the divorce has not yet been pronounced and custody of the child is the subject of a real battle since if the mother lives in France, the father lives in Tunisia. According to the elements obtained by France Bleu Isère, the individual is even the subject of a ban on leaving the territory.
At this stage, the kidnapping alert procedure has not been triggered. It meets very specific criteria. The kidnapping alert is only activated if it concerns a proven kidnapping. It is also necessary that the public prosecutor, the only one authorized to trigger the device, is able to confirm that the life or the physical integrity of the child is in danger and that he has elements of location of the minor. or his captor. These criteria do not currently seem to be met.
