Mia's mother, found last Sunday after more than five days on the run with her daughter, whose abduction she had planned, was indicted on Friday, announced the Nancy public prosecutor, François Pérain.
The mother of little Mia, who had ordered the kidnapping of her 8-year-old daughter of whom she no longer had custody, was indicted on Friday for "kidnapping of a minor in an organized gang", announced the public prosecutor. Republic of Nancy, François Pérain.
"She wished to assume her act"
Lola Montemaggi, 28, was found Sunday with her daughter after more than five days on the run, in a squat in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
She was extradited late Friday morning and heard by an investigating judge in the early evening.
"She wanted to take responsibility for her act, legitimize it and justify it," said François Pérain.
Mia, 8, was kidnapped without violence on April 13 in the Vosges, by several men, at the request of her mother, who was no longer allowed to see her alone or to speak to her on the phone.
Claiming to be part of the anti-system movement, the kidnappers had passed themselves off as child protection professionals, with falsified letterhead papers from the Ministry of Justice, and had managed to take the little girl away, lodged with her maternal grandmother about thirty kilometers from Epinal.
The Kidnapping Alert procedure had been triggered.
The two men were arrested a day or two later.