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The mother of Eya, brutally abducted by her father Thursday near Grenoble, left for Denmark to find her 10-year-old daughter, said Saturday the Grenoble prosecutor's office. According to the information in the investigators' possession, Sweden was a possible destination, a country corresponding to the dual nationality of the 53-year-old father.

The mother of Eya, 10, brutally abducted Thursday by her father before being found Friday, left for Denmark to find her daughter, said Saturday the Grenoble prosecutor's office, confirming information from BFMTV. Contacted by AFP, Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant was not able to say when the mother and daughter would return to France.

On Friday, the France embassy in Copenhagen said it was on deck to "proceed with its repatriation to France as soon as possible".

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Found in Rodbyhavn, a town located a hundred kilometers south of Copenhagen

The girl was found Friday afternoon in Rodbyhavn, a town located a hundred kilometers south of Copenhagen in Denmark, which is a crossing point for ferries from Germany. According to Danish police, her captors, the girl's father and an accomplice, were arrested around 14:30 p.m. and Eya was able to be "brought to safety". On Friday night, Mr. Vaillant had indicated that the girl was "as well as possible after such events".

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Sweden or Tunisia were destinations considered by the father

Eya, a CM2 schooler, had been abducted the day before while walking with her mother on the way to her school in Fontaine, a suburb of Grenoble. According to the prosecutor's office, the father "and a hooded accomplice" "gassed with tear gas the mother of the little girl" before seizing the child. The evidence in the investigators' possession suggested that the father, his accomplice and the child had gone abroad, with possible destinations being Sweden and Tunisia, countries corresponding to the dual nationality of the 53-year-old father.

A judicial investigation has been opened, in particular for aggravated violence against the child's mother and abduction by ascendant and complicity. Arrest warrants had been issued and issued under a European arrest warrant.