Friday, the father of little Hamza, who had "subtracted" his 12-year-old son from his childminder in December, in Fouquières-lès-Lens, in Pas-de-Calais, was sentenced to three months in prison. with suspension by the judicial court of Béthune.

A "kidnapping alert" had been triggered to find the boy.

"It's a scandal, the nightmare continues," reacted Hamza's father, Halim B. "The worst" is "that for two years" of probation "I will not be able to go to the place of residence of my son.

It's the ultra condemnation, it's worse than prison, ”he said, indicating that he was going to appeal.

The child was found safe and sound the next day.

On December 17, around 8 p.m., Halim B. presented himself to the childminder where his son was placed after a conflictual separation, to take him away without violence.

The "worrying family context" had led the Béthune public prosecutor's office to trigger an abduction alert the next day.

Hamza had finally been found safe and sound the same day, in the family of his father, after a call from the latter to the police.

According to the investigation, several errors were made during the first investigations, starting with the phone initially used to locate Halim B., which was not the right one.

The defendant had also telephoned the police station twice shortly after the events, and also warned the educator.

He even showed up at the police station around 10 p.m. to file a handrail.

“If it had to be done again, I would relaunch it”

During his trial on Monday, the 40-year-old father explained: “My son called me, he said to me, 'I'm going to run away, I'm afraid'.

And me, at that moment, I imagined the worst.

My only goal was to know it was safe.

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Prosecutor Virginie Valton, who had requested a four-month suspended prison sentence, admitted on Monday that the kidnapping alert had been triggered "from fragmentary elements available to the prosecution".

"There were points of which I was not informed, including the filing of the handrail, when I made this decision", she indicated, but "if it had to be done again, I would raise it again ".

In August, the father and his son were prevented by the authorities from embarking for the United Arab Emirates, according to the prosecution.

At the beginning of September, he had not handed the child over to his mother after his visitation rights, beginning a journey "of three months of wandering through France with the child".

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