Happy ending. Santiago was found alive, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office said this Friday evening. This very premature baby was located in the Netherlands with his parents who were arrested in the center of Amsterdam. According to police in the Dutch capital, the child “is currently hospitalized to receive the care he needs.”
The infant was taken on October 21 from a neonatology department of a hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), near Paris. A kidnapping alert was triggered on Tuesday. His parents were then suspected of having gone to Belgium.
Three people already indicted
The reasons for the kidnapping remain to be clarified, according to the prosecution, but it is likely that the parents feared losing custody of their child and that he would be placed in care. On the day of the incident, they had an interview with the hospital teams.
Born on October 4 at 32 weeks, eight early than expected, the baby needed constant care, “had to be warmed in an incubator, under monitoring”, and was not able to be fed at breast or using a bottle, the prosecutor explained on Thursday.
This Friday, three people – two men and a woman – suspected of having helped Santiago’s parents, were indicted. The two men, a minor and an adult, were indicted for kidnapping and sequestration of a minor under the age of 15 in an organized gang and temporarily incarcerated. European arrest warrants had been issued against the baby’s parents.
Source: www.20minutes.fr
