his mother indicted and placed under judicial supervision

Repatriated Thursday to France, the mother of Santiago, who had kidnapped her very premature baby on October 21 in a maternity ward in Seine-Saint-Denis, was presented Thursday to an investigating judge who indicted her for kidnapping and kidnapping of a minor under 15 years old by an organized gang.

Presented immediately to the judge of freedoms and detention, the young mother of 25 years old was left free under judicial supervision, contrary to the requisitions of the prosecution which had requested her placement in pre-trial detention. A decision which the prosecution appealed on Friday, he said in a press release.

In “post-traumatic stress disorder”, according to his lawyer

“She explained herself at length and her place is more in the hospital than in prison,” assured her lawyer Romuald Sayagh. “She is free. Her condition was taken into account, as was the fact that she agreed to take responsibility and cooperate,” he continued, referring to her “post-traumatic stress state” since giving birth, as can being the parents of extremely premature babies and that she had been living “in fear” since the baby's placement had been discussed.

Santiago placed with Child Welfare

Santiago, for his part, was repatriated to France on November 1st. “Initially hospitalized, he is now placed with Child Welfare,” announced the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office.
Very prematurely born two months early, the newborn, then 17 days old, was taken by his parents from a hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois, near Paris, where he was placed in an incubator.
After four days of tracking, Dutch police found the two parents and the baby on October 25 in a hotel in Amsterdam. The parents had been placed in pre-trial detention, awaiting their return to France.