Santiago's mother, arrested in Amsterdam after kidnapping her very premature baby from a hospital in Seine-Saint-Denis, will be handed over to the French authorities on Thursday, AFP learned on Wednesday from a source close to the case.
Arrested in an Amsterdam hotel room on October 25 after a hunt lasting several days, the infant's parents were placed in pre-trial detention with a view to their extradition. The mother will be handed over to France on Thursday, according to this source, confirming information from BFMTV.
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Once transferred to France, she should be presented to an investigating judge in Bobigny for indictment, before possible placement in pre-trial detention.
Little Santiago, 17 days old when he was kidnapped, was repatriated to France on October 31 by ambulance and is doing well, according to the same source.
The prosecution remains cautious about the reasons for the kidnapping
This very premature baby was taken by his parents aged 23 and 25 from the neonatology department of a hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois, near Paris. The baby, born eight weeks early, required constant care in an incubator.
At the end of four days of a race against time across three countries, the Dutch police arrested on October 25 in a hotel room in Amsterdam the two parents with their child, whose fragility raised fears for his life. life in the absence of hospital care.
The Bobigny public prosecutor's office has so far remained very cautious about the reasons for the kidnapping but it is likely that the parents feared losing custody of their child and that he would be placed in care. On the day of the incident, they had an interview with the hospital teams.
In the context of this case, two men, a minor and an adult, were indicted for kidnapping and confinement of a minor under the age of 15 in an organized gang and temporarily incarcerated. They admitted to having accompanied the couple and the infant in their flight to Belgium.
