Camille’s mother was brought before a judge
The Frenchwoman will be remanded in custody or under judicial supervision until her appearance, which is scheduled for September 16.
Camille was 5 years old when she was abducted by her mother in 2011. Her photo was posted on missing children sites.
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A mother on the run for eleven years, sentenced in her absence by French justice for not presenting her daughter to her ex-husband, was extradited on Tuesday from Switzerland and brought before a judge on Thursday, announced the Toulon prosecution, in the south of France.
Subject of two arrest warrants, eleven years after fleeing France, the mother was arrested in Switzerland, in the canton of Vaud where she had settled, during a simple road check, according to concordant sources . She was extradited on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, following an extradition request from France issued in March.
“No clue, no news”
Reached by AFP, the lawyer for her ex-husband, Me Olivier Ferri, explained that his client had had “no clues, no news” from his daughter since the escape organized by the mother in 2011.
As early as 2008, according to Me Ferri, “the couple was struggling and separated”, before the mother began divorce proceedings. The two ex-spouses fought a legal battle for custody of the child, until the mother “disappeared with the little girl”.
Today the child, aged 16, has been entrusted to the Swiss organization responsible for child protection and her father does not have the right to see her, deplored Me Ferri.
Multiple complaints
The father of the child has filed multiple complaints against his ex-wife for eleven years for non-presentation of the child, and obtained, in 2011 and 2016, his sentence to one year of imprisonment (sentence today prescribed) and then to three years’ imprisonment.
Camille’s mother was also sentenced in 2015 to two years in prison for slanderous and false denunciations brought against her ex-husband, whom she had accused of rape and sexual assault on their daughter, a procedure closed without further action.
She filed an opposition to the last two judgments, delivered in her absence, and will therefore be tried again in September.
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