A kidnapping alert was triggered after the kidnapping of a one-month-old baby from the Meaux hospital center (Seine-et-Marne), Thursday January 18. The main suspect, the girl’s mother, was found with the child, announced the Meaux public prosecutor, Jean-Baptiste Bladier, during a press conference on Friday. They are safe and sound, he said. “The kidnapping alert is therefore lifted, it has produced its effect”added the magistrate, specifying that the baby’s mother had been “placed in police custody”. Follow our live stream.
The child and his mother found in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis). “A woman in the town of Sevran recognized this mother in the street with the infant, made contact with this person and was able to hold her while the patrols arrived on site”, explained prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier Friday evening.
The baby taken Thursday evening. The child was kidnapped “between 7:35 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.” Thursday evening at the Meaux hospital (Seine-et-Marne), according to the authorities. When she was born, the little girl had “was placed in intensive care in a neonatology department for respiratory distress”, “then referred with her mother to a mother-child unit in December 2023”, reported Jean-Baptiste Bladier. “During this reception, the medical staff noted elements of concern regarding the care of the infant by his mother, inappropriate and violent comments and brutal behavior”, continued the magistrate.
The suspect had lost custody of her daughter. The baby’s mother, a young woman of 21 years of no fixed address, had lost custody of her daughter, according to several sources close to the investigation to franceinfo. After a report on January 16, the Meaux public prosecutor’s office decided to “entrust the baby to the child welfare service of Seine-Saint-Denis”, confirmed Jean-Baptiste Bladier, adding that “the principle of this decision was brought to the attention of the mother on January 17“That’s when this young woman decided to kidnap her child.”