2024-07-13 20:10:40
(ANSA) – PARIS, JULY 13 – A 6-year-old girl was kidnapped and killed last night in a forest in Normandy by her mother’s partner, who is now under arrest after a night on the run. The kidnapping alert, which mobilized over a hundred gendarmes, was raised around midnight: the Ministry of Justice announced this, citing the Rouen Prosecutor’s Office, which withdrew it around 2 am, having found the girl’s lifeless body near Saint Martin de l’If, in the Seine-Maritime department. The man was arrested around 6 am and is currently in police custody, the gendarmerie said. Célya had disappeared from her home in Saint-Martin-de-l’If, about twenty kilometers north-west of Rouen, shortly before 6 pm yesterday after an altercation between the girl’s mother and her partner. The man, according to the woman, had attacked her with a knife; she had managed to escape from the house but her partner had remained in the house with the child. But when the officers arrived at the house they found it empty. A dog squad and a helicopter were also activated for the search. The man had never been reported for domestic violence, but according to a source close to the investigation he was already known to the justice system. (ANSA).
2024-07-13 20:10:40