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Suspect's car spotted in the night
“When we came home last night we saw a Golf parked there, at the end of the cul-de-sac, we said to ourselves, it’s strange, because we don’t see many people in the neighborhood,” he told AFP a neighbor Benoît (who did not wish to reveal his last name), who raised the alarm with his wife, "we saw the kidnapping alert, we made a connection with the Golf and we called the police" .
“They came in big teams, there were a lot of people in the street, and it was like that all evening,” he continued, “It was quite impressive (...) We didn’t know not the little one, but it affects us a lot. It was a complicated night.”
Célya's father-in-law armed with a knife but arrested without incident
The alleged perpetrator who "consumed cocaine several times during the day"** according to his partner, was arrested shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday morning while he was trying to leave the woods located near their home in Betteville, explained Stéphane Gauffeny, general of gendarmerie for the Normandy region. He was arrested, "still armed with a knife" but allowed himself to be "arrested without incident", added the prosecutor.
The suspect was taken into custody for attempted murder of a spouse, kidnapping of a minor under 15 years old and murder of a minor under 15 years old, explained the prosecutor. “On the personality of the alleged perpetrator, I can tell you that he is 42 years old, has been convicted five times since 2009 for offenses related to narcotics and has already been imprisoned for this type of offense ", detailed the Rouen prosecutor.
He also suffered from "behavioral disorders" but was "not known for acts of violence and the gendarmes have not received any complaints for previous domestic violence" in this couple who had been together for around two years, again according to the prosecution.
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