Santiago’s mother, detained in Amsterdam after removing her premature baby on October 21 from a maternity hospital in Seine-Saint-Denis, was handed over to the French authorities on Thursday, November 7, announced a source close to the case and the Dutch Prosecutor’s Office. from the Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The young mother, 25, arrived at the Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in the middle of the afternoon and must be presented before an investigating judge, according to a source close to the case. He had left Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on a plane leaving “around 2 pm”said a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutor’s office, Franklin Wattimena.
The baby was repatriated to France on October 31 by ambulance and is doing well, according to the same source. Very premature, born two months early, he was transferred to a hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois, near Paris. The 17-day-old newborn, in an incubator, was carried in a shopping bag by his parents, who fled to Belgium and then to the Netherlands.
After four days of police monitoring in Europe, Dutch police found the two parents and the baby in good health on the afternoon of October 25 in a hotel room in Amsterdam. The father and mother were in preventive detention in the Netherlands, awaiting their transfer to France.
Driven by “fear”
Santiago’s mother’s lawyer, Romuald Sayagh, described him to AFP on Thursday as encouraged by “fear” when the baby’s location had been mentioned, even though“she had complied with the care”. The parents had an interview with the hospital teams on the day of the kidnapping.
“She is in a state of post-traumatic stress because you should know that parents of premature children go through a period of post-traumatic stress”reinforced in this case by “The threat of child placement”assured M.my Sayag. According to him, it is “fear” WHO “It drove these parents to flee.”.
The young mother must be brought to court to be charged, before her possible placement in preventive detention. Both parents were not delivered to France at the same time, because the mother had requested an accelerated procedure, while the father had opted for a long procedure, which could last several months.
The case was highly publicized because a kidnapping alert was activated in France and Belgium. Many police officers mobilized to find the baby as soon as possible, whose condition required constant care.
