A man, arrested Friday for the kidnapping in the Aisne of his seven-year-old child, found by the police, was indicted with three alleged accomplices, we learned Wednesday from the Laon prosecutor's office.

The four people, arrested Friday evening at the tollbooth of Villefranche-sur-Saône, in the Rhône, were indicted "counts of kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor committed in an organized gang and intentional violence aggravated by two circumstances having led to a ITT less than eight days, ”prosecutor Guillaume Donnadieu told AFP.

Aged 27 to 36, these residents of Marseille, all known to the police, were placed in pre-trial detention.

The 27-year-old father was separated from the mother, the prosecutor said.

All are known to the police.

The little boy had been kidnapped on Friday, in Gauchy, in the Aisne, by “several hooded individuals”.

They had burst into the house where the child lived "armed with a sledgehammer, a tear gas canister and a handgun according to the first testimonies", had indicated, Saturday, the zonal direction of the judicial police North .

The individuals seized the child "by force" in the presence of his mother and members of his family, before fleeing in a vehicle.

The police then deployed a "significant search device", allowing them to locate one of the vehicles involved on the A7 motorway, where it was driving south, then to intercept it, around 8:30 p.m.

The Research and Intervention Brigades (BRI) of Dijon and Lyon released the child "safe and sound" and arrested the suspects.

The child was returned to his mother in the evening.

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