The Mossos are looking for a man who would have taken his 2-year-old son at gunpoint from a sheltered center

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Updated Wednesday, January 31, 2024-12:23

The Mossos d'Esquadra are looking for a man who last Sunday took his two-year-old son from a sheltered center for minors in Lleida at gunpoint, real or simulated, with which he allegedly threatened a guard and an educator to take the minor.

The events occurred at the CRAE Llars Infantils Torre Vicens in the town last Sunday night, when the man stole one of his two children from this center, who are supervised by the General Directorate of Care for Children and Adolescents (DGAIA). ), according to the newspaper

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This is, precisely, one of the two warded minors that the police recovered on Friday of last week after having been abducted by relatives, and who were found with their mother in a supermarket on Lluís Companys street in Lleida, a city to which they had supposedly returned after being missing for three months.

After the father took the little boy at gunpoint last Sunday night, those responsible for the center immediately alerted the Mossos d'Esquadra, who issued a search and arrest warrant. The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating this case for a long time, after receiving several complaints about the abduction of several of the children by these parents, who are cared for in different juvenile centers. The police suspect that the family had fled to France and that they periodically changed locations .