In Paris, a child was stolen from the maternity ward - the police launched an urgent search
The boy, named Santiago, was described as having blonde hair and wearing white velvet pajamas when he went missing from a hospital in the Seine-Saint-Denis region of Paris.
French authorities have launched a desperate search for a 17-day-old prematurely born baby boy who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris hospital.
Police in Seine-Saint-Denis, a department in regional Paris, issued an alert for the newborn today, with appeals for information reaching radio, television and online. It said the boy, named Santiago, requires constant medical care. It said he has blonde hair and was dressed in white velvet pajamas and an oversized brown T-shirt when he was abducted late on Monday night from a hospital in the suburban region.
The police alert identified the baby’s 23-year-old father and 25-year-old mother as the only suspects and included photos of them both. A phone number and an email address were provided for people to contact with information. French TV was blanketed by the appeal alert this morning, with the broadcast from the Ministere de la Justice interrupting breakfast shows.
Police have said the boy’s parents are the main suspects ( Image: MINISTERE DE L’INTERIEUR/AFP via)
One alert broadcast on Premiere Edition, a programme on French television channel BFM TV, came in the form of crawling text on the screen informing the public that the baby was taken in the night between 11pm and 11.30pm. The appeal alert adds that the two parents are suspects, and calls on the public to provide information that may be relevant to the disappearance.
But it adds that people should not approach the two suspects, and instead call or email French authorities hoping to locate the newborn baby. The alert stated: "Santiago, newborn male, aged 17 days, blond hair, wearing a brown T-shirt size 6 months and white thick velvet pajamas was taken from the maternity ward of the Robert Ballanger hospital from Aulnay-sous, Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, on October 21, 2024, between 11pm and 11.30pm. The infant being premature, constant medical care is essential."
The appeal continues: "The suspects are his parents, a man aged 23, dressed in dark jeans, a white T-shirt, a light blue denim jacket and a black over-jacket and a woman aged 25 years old, dressed in a white sweater, a light blue sleeveless jacket and a green skirt. If you locate the child, do not intervene yourself, call 197 immediately or send an email to: [email protected]."
A manager at the Robert-Ballanger hospital told French national media service Le Parisien that he saw the parents leaving the neonatology ward equipped with a "simple bag" when they were stopped by a nurse. They claimed the nurse had asked them whether they would return by midnight, and replied "yes".
The publication added that the parents are believed to have left the area in a car, but authorities have not been able to track the two via surveillance. Hospital representatives have assured the public this is the "first time" an incident like this had occurred at the hospital, adding that the "necessary staff" were on shift at the time.
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