Subject to an arrest warrant for "
aggravated minor subtraction
", Fanny Birenbaum, 31, was intercepted this Wednesday, November 17 in Hérault with her five-year-old daughter, Maëva, whom she had abducted "
Voluntarily and illegally to the parental authority of his father
" in March 2021,
Le Figaro
learned
from the Montpellier prosecutor's office.
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The mother of the family had fled, refusing to hand the girl over to her father, after a court decision ordering the child's placement with Social Assistance for Children, with personalized support at the father's home and a mediatized visitation right (in the presence of a third person, editor's note) twice a month for the mother, specified our colleagues from
Midi Libre
.
Incest charges
Shortly before her departure, Fanny Birenbaum had informed the police that she feared that Maëva was a victim of incest from her father.
The thirty-something had already filed a complaint against him in May 2020 for "
sexual assault
".
But the latter had been closed for lack of sufficient proof, explains the regional daily.
Both parents have been separated since 2017.
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In charge of the investigation, the gendarmes of the Lunel brigade, in the Hérault, had broadcast a call for witnesses in which it was written that the mother of the family had "
organized her escape
".
During her run, Fanny Birenbaum would have stayed in Ardèche, Var and Ariège.
This Wednesday, she "
is being presented before the judge of freedoms and detention
" and her daughter was entrusted to social assistance for children, we are told.