Happy ending. Santiago was found alive, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office said this Friday evening. This baby, very premature, was located in the Netherlands with his parents who were arrested in the Amsterdam region. “They are all alive, in a hotel,” specifies a spokesperson for the prosecution without providing further information.
The infant was taken on October 21 from a neonatology department of a hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), near Paris. A kidnapping alert was triggered on Tuesday. His parents were then suspected of having gone to Belgium.
Three people already indicted
Born on October 4 at 32 weeks, eight early than expected, the baby needed constant care, “had to be warmed in an incubator, under monitoring”, and was not able to be fed at breast or using a bottle, the prosecutor explained on Thursday.
This Friday, three people – two men and a woman – suspected of having helped Santiago’s parents, were indicted. The two men, a minor and an adult, were indicted for kidnapping and sequestration of a minor under the age of 15 in an organized gang and temporarily imprisoned. European arrest warrants had been issued against the baby’s parents.
