Overview

• Four-year-old Maëlle was found safe in Épinay-sur-Seine and her father was placed in police custody on suspicion of kidnapping and issuing death threats.
• Prosecutor Raphaël Balland said the Var alert was briefly considered then suspended, yet information gathered around that window allowed police to quickly locate the pair.
• The Var suspect had sent messages threatening to kill the child, was known to the justice system, and had recently become homeless, according to the Toulon prosecutor.
• Three-year-old Khuslen was recovered in good health in the Morbihan, her father was arrested near Vannes after an alert was triggered Tuesday and lifted Wednesday.
• In the Orne case, the father was indicted for kidnapping and sequestration of a minor, a 41-year-old man was indicted for complicity, and a 47-year-old woman for non-reporting of a crime and money laundering, with prosecutors seeking pretrial detention for the father and judicial supervision for the others.