A desperate Swiss attempts self-immolation for the custody of daughter

A desperate Swiss attempts self-immolation for the custody of daughter


The run of a couple of Swiss with the girl they had been removed guard is is tragically completed Friday in the southwest of the France when the mother, desperate that it has found them, attempted self-immolation by fire in full public place.



The run of a couple of Swiss with the girl they had been removed guard is is tragically completed Friday in the southwest of the France when the mother, desperate that it has found them, attempted self-immolation by fire in full public place.



For this mother of 47 years in the district of Nyon, the flight took ends Friday morning at the health centre of Carcassonne, where she started the fire after to be apparently doused the lower body with gasoline. She was rescued and his days are not in danger, said to the press the Attorney of Carcassonne, Antoine Leroy.



The day before, daughter of nine and a half years again was removed and placed in a foster home by the services of the General Council.



The mother was fled from Switzerland December 24 with his daughter. It had benefited from a visit to her child for Christmas. The girl, as his older half-sister, had been withdrawn to the couple in October 2011 because his father was suspected of sexual abuse.



He joined his girlfriend and her daughter in their run.



After different stages, they eventually find refuge in the Aude, near Carcassonne. The girl there has even been educated. But parents, whom neither the identity nor the social environment have been revealed, were identified.



The French authorities were contacted by their Swiss counterparts shortly after the disappearance of the couple and their child, after they had been located across the border from their mobile phone.



The mother was "understood that his run would end" and in appearing Friday before social services where she had an appointment, she made "dramatic gesture, of distress" and attempted self-immolation, not without having previously warned by telephone a regional newspaper and the police of what she was about to do so, reported the Attorney of Carcassonne.



The Director of the health centre was able to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher and a blanket. Burned, the woman was hospitalized.



For the child, she was placed in a foster home and will be repatriated "in the coming days", said the Attorney, as provided for in an agreement between the Switzerland and the France.



The father, he not was stopped, no criminal prosecution not to; This is his girlfriend who is regarded as the instigator of the abduction of the child.



Singular coincidence, another mother and her daughter, all two Swiss and missing from their homes in Switzerland January, are to be found safe and sound elsewhere in the Southwest, in a village in the Lot-et-Garonne.



After their Switzerland, their trace was lost in Paris. A call to witnesses was launched Wednesday by the Central Directorate of the judicial police (LUTTE). But Thursday, the Swiss police have warned their French counterparts that the mother and daughter were at a farmer in a village in the Lot-et-Garonne.



These two cases have nothing to do with the other, said the Attorney of Carcassonne.



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