A homeless man took advantage of a moment of inattention on the part of the mother to try to kidnap a 4-year-old child on Monday afternoon in the streets of Paris. According to information from Europe 1, the man who followed the child on a scooter was stopped in time by passers-by who immediately alerted the police.

The little boy's mother filed a complaint. The homeless man was taken into police custody. It was a tragedy narrowly avoided. It took a few seconds of a mother's inatt attention for a homeless person to attack a 4 year old child.