He is suspected of having kidnapped his 8-year-old son in Lannion, Brittany.

The father of the young Dewi, arrested on Saturday, is due to appear in October before the criminal court of Saint-Brieuc, in the Côtes-d'Armor.

He was placed under judicial control, the public prosecutor announced on Monday.

At the end of his custody, the father of the little boy was brought before the public prosecutor for "the removal of a minor from the hands of those who exercise parental authority or to whom he has been entrusted", an offense punishable by year of imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 euros, said the prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc, Bertrand Leclerc, in a press release.

Prohibition of contact with the child

The suspect of the kidnapping has "the prohibition of contact with the child", the obligation "to initiate psychological care and to report regularly to the gendarmerie of his place of residence", specifies the press release.

Following the initiation of a kidnapping alert procedure by the authorities on Saturday morning, Dewi, 8, was found safe and sound a few hours later in Plouaret, in the Côtes-d'Armor, in the company of his father.

Psychological expertise in progress

According to investigators, the father had managed to defeat the vigilance of the educational services before fleeing with his son after a supervised visitation right, at the House of the Lannion department.

The child has been placed in foster care since June 17 by decision of the Saint-Brieuc children's judge

At this stage, the suspect "does not dispute the facts which he claims not to have premeditated", explains the public prosecutor who stresses that the file must be supplemented by psychological and personality expertises still in progress.

After "reassuring medical examinations", the child, suffering from deafness, was accommodated in a specialized educational structure adapted to his condition and his handicap, concludes the prosecutor.

Miscellaneous

The kidnapping alert launched for little Dewi, 8, disappeared in Lannion

Miscellaneous

Cédric Jubillar, his mother and his stepfather, placed in police custody by the gendarmes

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