This Thursday, May 25, prosecutor Éric Vaillant informed us of the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl in Isère, in the town of Fontaine. She had been kidnapped around 8:30 a.m. when she was walking to school, accompanied by her mother, according to Le Figaro.
The suspect in question is none other than Eya’s father, a 53-year-old man named Khaled Sassi. According to Le Parisien, the father and a hooded accomplice gassed the mother of the little girl with tear gas. The kidnapping alert, widely disseminated and taken up in the media, detailed the profile of the young girl, as well as that of the father.
This abduction would be at the origin of a family conflict relating to a problem of custody rights. The girl’s mother said she found herself on foot two days in a row, following the discovery of her flat tires.
The Ministry of Justice announced this Friday morning that the kidnapping alert triggered Thursday evening for the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl in Isère has been lifted, “by decision of the Grenoble prosecutor’s office”. However, “the child has not been found”. The ministry also adds in the press release, that “the investigation is continuing and the elements collected thanks to this alert are being exploited”.
Thursday evening, the public prosecutor of Grenoble had specified that it was “likely” that the father of little Eya “is trying to leave France”. This declaration is reinforced by the fact of “his dual Swedish and Tunisian nationality”, while ensuring that “all the European services have already been contacted” to set up the devices “to intercept the father, his accomplice and his granddaughter , if they ever move outside the border”.
