Christophe, father of two boys aged 6 and 10, gave the alert on August 5 when he noticed that "the telephone number of the woman, with whom he had lived for seven years, according to France Bleu, was no longer awarded ”. The apartment where she lived in Rémilly (Moselle) "was empty", explained her lawyer, Me Arnaud Blanc.
An investigation for "worrying disappearance" was opened after the departure of the mother with her two boys, undoubtedly for Afghanistan, country where her second husband is from, we learned Tuesday from the Metz prosecutor's office.
According to the first elements of the preliminary investigation, opened Friday for "worrying disappearance", the mother of the family left her accommodation with her Afghan husband and her two sons during the night of August 4 to 5 to take a plane from an airport in Germany.
A problematic trip last summer
"We believe that the family is now in Afghanistan," said Julien Berger, deputy prosecutor. After the divorce between the mother and the father of the children, which took place in 2016, joint custody was put in place.
"There was no difficulty between them", until a trip of the mother with her current partner for two months, in Afghanistan, last summer, and "remarks reported by the children" on the facts which occurred at the family home, reported Me Blanc. Converted to Islam, "she changed her behavior," he added.
A children's judge had been seized in December 2019 and an educational assistance measure had been put in place, but the ban on leaving the territory for the two boys, requested by the father, had been refused.
"An organized escape"
"My client learned that the mother had the children made passports without him knowing," said the father's lawyer. “This leak was organized, it doesn't seem rushed. She gave the change with her parents and the father (of her children) until the end, ”he said. “No one knows how to reach her. My client is afraid of never seeing his children again, ”said Me Blanc.
According to Le Républicain Lorrain, who revealed the case, the 33-year-old mother left a letter explaining that she "aspires to another life" and that she "will get back in touch as soon as she is asked. "
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The French authorities will try to get in touch with her to set up mediation, according to the prosecution, which is studying the possibility of opening an investigation for "child abduction".
