Six-Yr-Outdated Woman Kidnapped and Killed in France: Mom’s Associate Arrested

The person suspected of kidnapping and killing a 6-year-old woman, the daughter of his associate, in a forest close to Saint-Martin-de-l’If (Seine-Maritime) final night time has been arrested.
The person was arrested and is presently in police custody, the gendarmerie mentioned. “The gendarmes discovered and arrested the primary suspect round 6 am”, the associate of the kid’s mom, “close to the place the place his automotive was discovered, in a forest in Saint-Martin-de-l’If”, it mentioned. (ANSA).

The six-year-old woman whose disappearance in northern France triggered the “kidnapping alert” system final night time has been discovered lifeless, the Ministry of Justice introduced.
“Celya’s lifeless physique has been discovered. By determination of the Rouen prosecutor’s workplace, the report of kidnapping has been withdrawn,” the ministry mentioned on its X account with out giving additional particulars. A gendarmerie supply mentioned the associate of the little woman’s mom remains to be needed: he’s believed to have kidnapped the little woman after stabbing her in Saint Martin de l’If, within the Seine-Maritime division in Normandy. (ANSA-AFP).

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Greater than 100 gendarmes have been mobilized in France the place a “kidnapping alert” has been issued for a 6-year-old woman who’s feared to have been kidnapped and stabbed by her mom’s associate.
Célya, 6, “disappeared from her dwelling in Saint-Martin-de-l’If,” about 20 km northwest of Rouen shortly earlier than 6 p.m. on Friday, in accordance with a press launch from the authorities. “It’s probably that she was kidnapped by her mom’s associate,” a 42-year-old man, the gendarmes continued. It was the mom who referred to as the police round 6 p.m. to say that her associate, who is just not the kid’s father, had simply attacked her with a knife, a police supply advised AFP. The lady later mentioned that she had managed to flee from the home however that her associate was nonetheless there with the kid. In response to a supply near the investigation, the mom mentioned that her daughter had additionally been stabbed. However when the officers arrived on the home they discovered it empty.
A canine workforce and a helicopter had been additionally activated for the search. The couple had not been reported for home violence, however in accordance with the supply near the investigation, the person was additionally recognized to the justice system for behavioral issues.
Adopted in France in February 2006, the “kidnapping alert” system consists of launching an enormous alarm within the occasion of the kidnapping of a minor youngster to mobilize the inhabitants to seek for the kid and his kidnapper. To this point in France it has been triggered about thirty occasions, the final one final January for the disappearance of a one-month-old woman, kidnapped from the hospital in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) and instantly discovered protected and sound together with her mom.