Kidnapping of Santiago: the prosecution appeals the placement of his mother under judicial supervision

Extradited this Thursday from the Netherlands to France, the mother of Santiago, a very premature baby taken from the neonatology department of the Robert-Ballanger hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) on October 21, was presented immediately to an investigating judge of the Bobigny judicial court. The latter “indicted her for kidnapping, sequestration of a 15-year-old minor in an organized gang and deprivation of care or food compromising the health of a 15-year-old minor by ascendant or person with authority », Indicates the Bobigny public prosecutor's office in a press release released this Friday midday, confirming the information from Le Parisien published Thursday evening.

After this first interview with the investigating magistrate, a judge of freedoms and detention placed the young woman under judicial supervision, contrary to the requisitions of the public prosecutor who had requested that she remain in pre-trial detention. “A logical and human decision,” praised his lawyer, Mr. Romuald Sayagh, after the hearing. The Bobigny public prosecutor's office announces that it has “appealed today (Editor’s note: this Friday) of the decision to place under judicial supervision”.

On Tuesday, October 22 in the morning, an “Kidnapping Alert” was broadcast in France in order to find Santiago and his parents, suspected of having kidnapped their newborn, then 17 days old, the night before from the neonatal department where he was receiving care. constant care essential for very premature babies. At the end of a run of almost five days through France, Belgium and the Netherlands, all three were found in a hotel in Amsterdam.

The mother accepted the accelerated procedure which allowed her extradition to France as of this Thursday. “The father refused the simplified surrender procedure to the French authorities, he is still incarcerated in the Netherlands,” said the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office this Friday noon. Santiago returned to France on November 1st. Initially hospitalized, he is now placed with Child Welfare. »