![La maison du père, qui a été interpellé par les forces de l'ordre. [SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP]](/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=640,height=640,format=webp/https://storage.googleapis.com/uploads.mongoosehq.com/url/media/123040048/4e07dbeda8395a668b834cd515d75abbf98987c77a8bb651084d5b67c718bf0c)
Overview
- Gendarmes in Hagenbach found the boy Monday after a neighbor reported childlike noises, discovering him naked, malnourished and unable to walk on a pile of waste near excrement.
- The Mulhouse prosecutor said Friday that the 43-year-old father was placed under formal investigation and jailed on counts of unlawful confinement and deprivation of care.
- Investigators report the child lived more than a year in the van without sanitation or showers, urinating in bottles, using garbage bags for feces and receiving cold meals twice a day through winter without heat.
- A surveillance camera the father aimed at the vehicle showed him visiting roughly twice a day; he admitted the confinement and claimed he was “protecting” his son from a psychiatric placement he blamed on his partner.
- The partner was charged for failing to assist a minor in danger and for not reporting abuse while contesting the allegations, the boy remains in hospital, his two sisters were placed by prosecutors, and the inquiry is reviewing how he vanished from school rolls after the 2023–2024 year with a child-rights group set to join as a civil party.