“dysfunctions” observed during an outbreak in Pas-de-Calais
He had been described as a man “Collaborate dangerous”… Three weeks after the kidnapping alert was triggered in Fouquières-lez-Lens, in Pas-de-Calais, Halim B., 40, the father at the origin of the case, appeared on Monday January 10, before the Criminal Court of Béthune.
But, at the request of several of the parties, who would like more time to work on the case, the trial for “Removal of a child by ascendant from the hands of the person in charge of his care” was postponed to March 4. Halim B. was treated under judicial supervision.
“Malfunctions, I am not going to say that there were none, that would be to hide the face”, launched the assistant prosecutor Virginie Valton, in court about this case.
On December 7, 2021, around 8 p.m., Halim B. presented himself to the maternal assistant where his son was placed in the context of a conflictual separation to take him away without violence. the “Disturbing family context” had led the Béthune public prosecutor’s office to trigger a kidnapping alert the next day, around 6.30 am, relinquishing the Lens police station in favor of the Lille judicial police.
Series of errors
Then, several mistakes were made during the first investigations, starting with the phone number used to locate Halim B., which is not the correct one. In addition, the defendant calls the police station twice shortly after the incident, and he warns the educator. He shows up at the police station around 2 a.m. to drop off the handrail, saying he even has a Hamza because he “Felt bad” in his host family and “Was blackmailing suicide”. The next day, discovering the kidnapping alert, he directly contacted the judicial police.
I got you “A material error”, from “Malfunctions”, but, a few months earlier, Halim B. and his son had been “Prevented by the Belgian authorities from embarking for the United Arab Emirates”, where the family lived and where the father settled, observed, Monday, Virginia Valton.
Also in September 2021, following a visitation right, he had no “Not delivered the child to his mother”, and although he called the police, he refused to open the door for them, before starting “Three months of wandering” with her son, she recalled.
“This file is empty. I only answered the distress call from my son, who told me he felt in dangerHalim B. said in court. I did what any dad would have done. “
The investigation confirmed that the child did ask his father to come and pick him up and rushed into his car. The case is “Incredible”, criticized Damien Legrand for the defense, for whom the procedure “Is not based on anything at all”. “We owe to the police officers the fact that they did not take into account the statement made by handrails in one office, while in the other office of the same police station a colleague called the public prosecutor. Republic ! “, he reminded. He lamented that “The prosecutor continues to maintain that all this is normal”. Customer son “Has been unduly exposed to judicial retribution”, he stressed, regretting that he had “Had his face featured on all TV channels”.