Three days later Santiago’s parents’ kidnappinginfant, very premature, from the Aulnay-sous-Bois hospital (Seine-Saint-Denis), the couple, on the run in Belgium, has still not been found. However, the noose is tightening around parents, presumed kidnappers of their own child. On Wednesday, traces of the escapees were found on the Belgian side in a hotel room in Mons, and the couple’s blue Audi A4 was found by Belgian police in Charleroi.
He, Kévin D., 23 years old, was dressed in jeans and a t-shirt the evening of the alleged kidnapping, she Cristina N., 25 years old, brunette with long hair, wore a green skirt and a jacket sleeveless. Of Serbian origin, from the Roma community, Cristina and Kevin lived until now in a recent pavilion, in Noisy-le-Sec, in Seine-Saint-Denis, protected by large wrought iron gates. The home was searched Monday evening.
In the neighborhood, neighbors seem to know the couple poorly. “I have the impression that it’s not the same residents all the time and that things don’t go badly,” one of them believes. Others only know that the accommodation was occupied by “people from the Roma community”.
Criminal record
Of Serbian origin but of French nationality, actually from the Roma community, the little boy’s parents are both known to the courts. Santiago’s father was convicted four times between 2021 and April 2024 for, in particular, burglary, criminal conspiracy or drug trafficking. The mother was convicted three times between 2019 and 2024 for thefts. According to a source close to the investigation, Cristina is known to the police as a drug addict.
Their portrait accompanied the kidnapping alert, triggered Tuesday morning, and lifted in the afternoon. This forensic photo taken by the police reveals a man and a woman with marked features, with deep distress in their eyes.
“We are looking for them everywhere, we are trying to contact her at all costs, we have been to all their addresses,” said a member of Santiago’s mother’s family on TF1. “Take the child back to the hospital, don’t destroy your life!” », she again begged into the microphone of our colleagues.
Psychological motivations to be clarified and those around us questioned
The motives for the kidnapping remain to be clarified at this stage, indicated the prosecutor of Seine-Saint-Denis Éric Mathais this Thursday during a press conference, but it is probable that parents feared placement of their child. On the day of the incident, they had an interview with the hospital teams.
It is not specified what was said during this discussion but “it is likely that they were afraid that a report” would be transmitted by the doctors and that their child would be placed, the prosecutor further indicated. . However, no formal procedure had been initiated and both parents had full parental authority at the time of the kidnapping.
Last Tuesday, five people close to the couple were arrested. If two police custody has been lifted, three people remain indicted. After admitting to having helped Santiago’s parents cross the Belgian border before returning to France, a woman, unknown to the justice system, a man and a minor, both known, were referred this Thursday, according to the public prosecutor . The woman should be prosecuted for failure to report a crime, the two men for kidnapping of a minor in an organized gang and deprivation of care. The young couple, like their accomplices, risk life imprisonment.