Photography issued by the gendarmerie 19 August 2016 shows a portrait of Nathael (9 years), abducted by his father 19 August 2016 in Romenay. – Handout / FRENCH POLICE / AFP

Nathael was found. This is the Deputy Prosecutor of Macon, Frédéric Jacques, who announced Saturday at a press conference in the premises of the gendarmerie in Charnay-lès-Mâcon. The nine year old boy, missing since Friday, was found in good health with his father in Vaucluse, in the abduction alert system.

The child and his father were found “in now relax near a river “by the police” in the Bédarrides area “near the home of the respondent, said the magistrate. Nathael staying with his paternal grandparents during the holidays to
 Romenay, a small town Saône-et-Loire. His parents are separated but his mother, with whom he lives in the Var, has maintained good relations with her in-laws and had entrusted their children for a few days.



Testimonies allowed the locate

Nathael was to return to Toulon on Friday but when her grandmother came to wake him at 6:30, she found that pillows in bed The father, aged 58, came from Vaucluse by car, returned home in which he holds the key overnight, his mobile phone having bounded around 2 Romenay – he turned off thereafter. Before hitting the road with the child, dressed in his pajamas and a sweater.

In the late morning Friday, the vehicle was controlled by the police near Macon but the kidnapping alert n had not yet been triggered, the grandmother had not reported the disappearance. It’s mother informed by a father’s sister also live in the Vaucluse, who complained Toulon, following which the alert has been triggered in the evening. Twenty policemen were then mobilized the father’s home, testimony to locate her son.



No trace of violence raised