Kidnapping alert in Seine-Maritime: Célya’s mother raised the alarm after being the victim of a knife attack
It was the little girl’s mother who alerted the authorities around 6 p.m. and explained to them that she had just been attacked with a knife by her companion, a source within the gendarmerie told AFP. She said she managed to escape from her home, but that her companion, who is not Célya’s father, was still there with the little girl. According to a source close to the investigation, the mother declared that her child had also been stabbed. But when they arrived at the home, the police found that it was empty of any occupants.
In the context of Célya’s disappearance, the gendarmerie press release indicated that the girl was “six years old, of European type, medium-length dark brown hair, brown eyes, wearing a black unicorn dress, measuring 1, 10 m, disappeared from his home in Saint-Martin-de-l’If” about twenty kilometers northwest of Rouen shortly before 6 p.m. “She is likely to have been kidnapped by her mother’s companion: man aged 42, 1.80 m, very thin build, brown hair, blue eyes, traveling in a navy blue Golf registered 7189 WM 76 “.
Kidnapping alert in Seine-Maritime: Célya’s stepfather is actively sought
Once the kidnapping alert was triggered, more than a hundred gendarmes were mobilized from Seine-Maritime and neighboring departments, as well as mobile gendarmes, a dog team and a helicopter.
The suspect, the companion of Célya’s mother, is still actively sought. “Significant gendarmerie resources are currently deployed to search for the alleged perpetrator,” we can read in a press release from the Rouen public prosecutor, published overnight.
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