A missing girl, a mother found dead, an actively sought-after father… A dark affair in Dunkirk. The kidnapping alert plan – which had been triggered on Wednesday evening to find the young Malek, 8, whose trace was lost in Dunkirk (North) – has been lifted.
However, the child is still wanted, we learned Thursday from a source close to the case and from the judicial police.
The father, Jamel, 40, suspected of the murder of his ex-companion, could have fled with the little one.
The strangled mother
According to a source close to the investigation, the mother, 29, “was found dead at home” by her own mother. She showed signs of strangulation as well as bruises. “Three of the four children” in the household are “safe and sound”, but Malek, 8, is “on the other hand missing”, added this source.
The victim bore traces of strangulation, as well as bruises, according to this source, which specifies that she was discovered by her mother, the children’s grandmother.
The girl is not the victim’s daughter, said a second source close to the case, according to which the three other children are aged seven, two and a half and seven months.
The suspect, an asylum seeker of Tunisian nationality, is known to the police and the courts, said the first source. He is “in the list of suspects, first of the kidnapping, then potentially (of the death) of his wife”, she added, specifying that the couple had “experienced disputes”.
a violent man
In front of the family building, in a popular district of Dunkirk, neighbors corroborate the hypothesis of a violent man towards his companion. “He was not a nice person: he was someone who hit her regularly,” says a neighbor, Johanna Francke.
The father was “very friendly on the outside”, but “I saw that he raised his hand”, says another neighbor, Delphine Vasseur, 53 years old. “There were constant fights, shouting,” she adds, saying the police “regularly came” to the couple’s home.
A direct neighbour, Sylvia, 18, says the victim came to see her the evening of the incident to tell her: “If you hear people crying out for help, you can call the police. »
“Around 9:30 p.m. she rang the doorbell, we opened the door and she asked to make a call. My roommate gave her phone. She couldn’t find the number she was looking for,” she added. “Around one o’clock in the morning, I heard (the wanted man) shouting at this lady. He told her to leave and suddenly there was no more noise. He said to him: “get out, get out”, ”continues his roommate Mathilde. “Afterwards, no more sound, no more image, until 2 p.m., when we saw the police arrive and explain what had happened,” she said.
On the door of the apartment, a seal of the police specifies the nature of the infringement: “murder”.
Contacted by AFP, the Nord prefecture and the Dunkirk prosecutor’s office declined to comment at this stage.
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Several criteria met to launch the alert
The “Abduction Alert” plan is a massive and immediate alert system deployed to help in the search for a presumed abducted child. Adopted in France in February 2006, it consists of launching a massive alert in the event of the kidnapping of a minor child to mobilize the population in the search for the child and his abductor.
It is only activated if several criteria are met: there must be a proven abduction and not a simple disappearance, the victim must be a minor, his physical integrity or his life must be in danger and information must allow him to be located. . Its previous activation dates back to May 25 for the kidnapping of little Eya, 10, by her father in Isère.
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