Overview
- Six‑week‑old Dalia, born prematurely and treated for a congenital heart condition, was left by an unidentified woman at Lille’s Saint‑Vincent‑de‑Paul hospital and is reported in good health aside from her cardiopathy.
- The nationwide alert was lifted after the infant’s recovery, but the parents, Abdelkader Benabderrahmane, 24, and Chaima Hattab, 20, and their children Naël, 18 months, and Éline, 2½ years, remain missing and may attempt to leave France.
- Authorities say the case followed a provisional child‑welfare placement order triggered by a hospital report citing precarious housing, suspected parental drug use, and neglect; the parents fled after opposing educators enforcing the order.
- An inquiry for organized abduction of minors under 15 is being run by Seine‑Saint‑Denis territorial security and the departmental judicial police, with searches leveraging Lille CCTV and visits to known squats; the public is asked to call 197 or email alerte-enlevement@interieur.gouv.fr with information.
- The children’s grandparents are in police custody on suspicion of assisting the flight and could be brought before an investigating judge, as the prosecutor appeals directly to the parents to surrender the toddlers for swift, safe care.