the two children found safe and sound, their father arrested

Mohammed and Nassim, two boys aged five and three who were kidnapped in Fourmies, in the North, early in the afternoon, were found alive this Monday, after the triggering of an abduction alert. They were found by police “in the street” Monday evening near their father’s home in Beuvrages, near Valenciennes, according to a source close to the case. The suspect, their father, whose photo was released by the gendarmerie, was immediately arrested.

The children were with their mother on the public highway when they were kidnapped around 1:10 p.m., according to a source close to the case. Their father is suspected of having kidnapped them at gunpoint, according to another source.

12 gendarmerie patrols

“The suspect could be the father, a North African man measuring 1m65, brown eyes, short black hair, growing beard, aged 38, wearing a navy blue down jacket, black pants and black sneakers, ‘a gray neck warmer’specifies the website of the Ministry of Justice. And to add that he would have “fled in a light gray Audi A3 vehicle registered BD-761-QQ”.

A major system had been put in place to try to find the two children: 12 gendarmerie patrols as well as 10 gendarmes from the Lille research section, a source within the gendarmerie told AFP.