He had warned the police that he had taken his son, before a kidnapping alert was triggered: Hamza's father, 12, will finally be tried in March for having "
taken
" the child from his maternal assistant, a case in which the prosecution acknowledged Monday "
dysfunctions
".
"
Dysfunctions, I will not say that there were none, it would be to hide the face
", launched Monday the assistant prosecutor Virginie Valton, in front of the criminal court of Béthune.
A "
disturbing family context
"
The court had just ruled on the postponement to March 14 of the trial of Halim B., 40, for "
the removal of a child by ascendant from the hands of the person in charge of his custody
".
He was kept under judicial supervision.
On December 17, around 8 p.m., he went to the maternal assistant where his son was placed, in the context of a conflictual separation, and took him away, without violence.
The “
disturbing family context
” led the Béthune public prosecutor's office to trigger a kidnapping alert the next day, around 6.30 am, relinquishing the Lens police station in favor of the Lille judicial police.
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But according to the investigation, several errors were made during the first investigations: while the phone initially used to locate Halim B. is not the correct one, this last phone to the police station twice shortly after the facts, and also warns the educator.
He even shows up at the police station around 10 pm, to leave a handrail and report having taken Hamza, who "
felt bad
" in his host family and "
was blackmailing suicide
".
The next day, discovering the kidnapping alert, he contacted the police directly.
"Three months of wandering"
There was "
a material error
", "
malfunctions
", but a few months before, Halim B. and his son had been "
prevented by the Belgian authorities from boarding for the United Arab Emirates
", where the family lived. and the father has settled down, Virginie Valton observed Monday. Also in September, at the end of a visitation right, he had "
not returned the child to his mother
", and although he called the police services, had refused to open the door to them, and began with him "
three months of wandering
" she again recalled.
“
This file is empty.
I only answered the distress call from my son, who told me he felt in danger
, ”said Halim B. in court and in the press.
“
I did what any dad would have done.
"