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After being abducted by her father on Thursday, May 25, the 10-year-old girl finally found her mother two days later. The father and his accomplice were arrested and will be handed over to the French prison administration.
Eya and her mother met on Saturday afternoon, May 27, in the town of Rodbyhavn, in the very south of Denmark. A moving and discreet reunion, according to the French diplomats who attended. The day before, the vehicle in which the little girl was with her father and his accomplice was checked by the border police. After crossing Switzerland and Germany, they disembarked from a ferry. The two adults were arrested, the 10-year-old girl entrusted to social services. According to the French Embassy, Eya and her mother will leave very quickly for Fontaine (Isère), in the suburbs of Grenoble, 1400 km from Denmark.
The father and his accomplice to pre-trial detention
This is where Eya was kidnapped on Thursday May 25 by her father, on the way to school. Before being extradited, the father, of Swedish and Tunisian nationality, and his accomplice, can appeal. “They will be handed over to the prison administration in France. The prosecution will request the provisional detention of the two defendants”, explains Éric Vaillant, public prosecutor in Grenoble. Following a complaint for domestic violence, Eya’s father had no longer had the right to approach his wife or daughter since 2018. Regarding the kidnapping, a judicial investigation was opened for aggravated violence against the mother. d’Eya and subtraction by ascending.