Nausicaa and Lou were returned to the custody of their parents on Friday afternoon, June 24, after being entrusted for a fortnight to the care of the departmental child welfare services, at the request of the public prosecutor of reindeer.
The case had moved social networks and revived the debate on home birth in France.
The two parents, supported by many supporters of the freedom given to couples not to give birth in the presence of medical personnel, believed that the court decision constituted a "
kidnapping
" and that they were to be punished for their choice - which the authorities have always denied this, citing serious doubts about the sanitary conditions in which the parents are raising their daughters.
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On closer inspection, as
Le Figaro
then showed , the story that had imposed itself on social networks (in particular in the communications made by the activist Marie-Hélène Lahaye) was partly inaccurate, and left aside several gray areas in the attitude of Noémie and her companion.
Elements that had caught the attention of the town hall (to whom Noémie admits having lied, explaining at first that she had not had time to go to the hospital to give birth, before acknowledging that it was a choice on his part from the beginning), then departmental services.
The provisional placement order was motivated in particular by the conclusions of the Vitré hospital,
On their Instagram page, the two parents who have used the services of a lawyer congratulate themselves for the moment of the return of their daughters to the house.
“
We have waited so long for this day and it has finally arrived.
Our happiness is indescribable...
they write
.
Now it's time for hugs and reunions, for the slow rebuilding of ties following this brutal separation.
We will take the time to come back to you to publish the lawyers' bills as agreed
": the couple intends to take advantage of the surge of compassion aroused by their story to get help, estimating that they have already paid around fifteen thousand dollars. euros in court costs.
Will the case end there?
For the moment, associative activists intend to make the story of Noémie and Raphaël a symbol, convinced that it reveals in hollow liberticidal reflexes among the competent authorities.