ElLISE ENLEVE ANDRE 3 and a half - Arles (France)

(Translated)
http://www.alerte-enlevement.gouv.fr/

20 March 2009
A-abduction alert was triggered

Today around noon Elise aged three and a half has been removed in Arles (13) by two men and a woman who attacked the father with whom she was walking.

The kidnappers fled in a vehicle registered Renault Modus 399 ABD 76 (beige or brown).

Elise measuring 97 cm, normal body hair half-long, light chestnut, has brown eyes.

She wears a black canvas trousers, boots, a gray jacket and black wool and a parka with hood.

IF YOU FIND THE CHILD OR THE SUSPECTS, DO NOT THE SAME BUT YOU CALL THE POLICE: 0805 200 200



Elise, Elise enlevéANDRE child

Aged 3 and a half years

Size: 97cm
Build: thin (12kg)
Hair: half-long (shoulders)
chestnut clear
eyes: brown
Wearing:
- Boots blue leather scratches
- Antalon black canvas
- Gray sweat
- Gray wool jacket and black zip
- Black hooded anorak

Likely to be found in a vehicle registered Renault MODUS 399 ABD 76 brown-beige

Was removed this day at 11.50 am on the town of Arles, a woman accompanied by two men.

(Translated)
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20/03/2009

France: One-abduction alert was triggered

Mise to date (17.57) - The girl, aged 3 and a half years, was kidnapped in late morning. Born of a Russian mother, she was removed for the first time in 2007. The car of the kidnappers was identified by police.

The plan Alert abduction was triggered in early afternoon after the removal of Elise, 3 and a half years in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) by two men and a woman. The car in which the girl was abducted was a flashée radar between 16:35 Nîmes (Gard) and Arles, and is followed by a helicopter. The vehicle was spotted when he borrowed the ramp back towards Arles.

The Central Directorate of Judicial Police said that the girl was abducted by two men and a woman who attacked the father with whom she was walking. The kidnappers fled in a vehicle rental Renault Modus registered 399 ABD 76 (beige or brown).

Elise measure 97 cm. Of normal weight, she wears half-long hair, light brown, and brown eyes. She wears a black canvas trousers, boots, a gray jacket and black wool and a parka with hood.

More information: http://www.alerte-enlevement.gouv.fr/

13:31 Posted

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21/03/2009

Elise and her mother are not in Russia

Mise updated - Sunday 10H20 - expanded research across Europe

Finally, Elise, the Franco-Russian girl kidnapped in France, was not on the plane on to Russia as investigators had believed. The information has been confirmed this morning by a French diplomat stationed in Moscow has confirmed to the AFP agency qu'Elise, and her mother, Irina Belenkaya did not join Russia.

Yesterday, for a few hours, investigators had believed Elise on board a Moscow-Geneva flight after four, corresponding to the reporting of the kidnappers were reported to the aircraft. Checked at their arrival, people are not those who were searched.

Friday, hours after his abduction, a Swiss citizen said he saw the child in a train-Bellegarde Montpellier, with his mother. That would have asked what is the distance between Geneva and Bellegarde.

Elise's mother, Irina Belenkaya, designated by the child's father Franco-Russian as part of a commando who kidnapped Elise in Arles, asked in English to the Swiss traveler what was the distance between Geneva and Bellegarde. The witness has unfortunately alerted the police that Saturday morning. The search for the girl have been widely applied throughout Europe, particularly in Switzerland where "surveillance is highly increased.

After the car in which the girl was captured was found in an empty avenue de Montpellier, France had stepped up searches and, according to a source from the police, Interpol was called in to help extend the research to all European countries.
Elise was kidnapped Friday, 11 am to 50 when she was walking to cycling with her father in the city of Arles. According to the prosecutor of Tarascon, Antoine Paganelli, the attack was allegedly planned, because the commando appeared to know the habits of the father, a scientist oceanographer named Jean-Michel André, and his daughter.

The scientist was severely beaten with electric batons by two men and that "a woman dressed in black who was wearing a wig" détachait girl seat installed on the rack and made to board the Renaultodus. According to a witness, dressed in black as security officers, the two attackers communicated with each other in coded language. Their car was started in whirlwind, leaving Jean-Michel A. unconscious on the asphalt. The latter had to be transported to the Joseph-Imbert hospital in Arles.

The father of the very small was violently struck in the face. According to doctors, he may lose vision in one eye.

A.F. (Geneva)

18:14 Posted

The translations above are not very good, am I righting thinking this case is a 'Family Abduction' and the authorities think that Elise is with her mother? If so then I will need to move this case to the relevant section on our forum but I will wait for clarification first.

Tezza for now it is unclear if Family Abduction or not. Police are considering many options as can be seen in article below. I'm sure we can help folks !

AFP

22 March 2009

Interpol steps into "tug of love" custody case


MARSEILLE, France (AFP) — Interpol issued a search notice Sunday for a missing three-year-old girl snatched from France amid a battle for custody between her French father and Russian mother.
France had already alerted police across Europe for signs of the girl and her mother, Irina Belenkaya, and it was at their request that Interpol issued a yellow notice, which is used to help missing persons, often minors.
The Interpol notice, sent out to police forces in its 187 member states, carries a photo of Elise Andre together with a physical description and other identifying details, such as the fact that she speaks French.
Three-year-old Elise was grabbed from her father, Jean-Michel Andre, in the south of France on Friday by two men and a woman. Andre was beaten up during his daughter's abduction.
The move by the international police organisation came as France's embassy in Moscow moved to quash claims that the girl had flown with her mother to Russia.
"The latest information is that they are not on Russian territory," a French diplomat said.
Andre, who appeared on French television covered in bruises and with one eye half-closed, said two unidentified men had beat him up before snatching his daughter as he collected her from school in the southern town of Arles.
Investigators in southern France said they were taking seriously the possibility that the girl's mother had been involved, but for the moment had no hard evidence to prove it.
After a false alert on Saturday that had suggested the girl might be in Russia, they had now turned their attention to Switzerland, local prosecutor Antoine Paganelli told AFP.
"At the present time, the most likely hypothesis comes from the testimony of a Swiss national who says she saw the child accompanied by a woman in a train heading towards Switzerland on Friday," he said.
"The Swiss authorities have been alerted and are taking the necessary steps," he added.
Earlier Sunday, the Russian authorities said they would inform the French if the girl turned up in Russia.
"But there can't be any talk of detaining the child's mother," said interior ministry spokesman Oleg Yelnikov, Interfax reported.
"A child can't be considered kidnapped if it's by the parent and there's no use of violence or involvement by other persons."
In France, the girl's father told AFP he was certain the third person in the team -- a woman dressed in black and wearing a wig -- had been his estranged wife.
In 2008, Andre himself snatched the girl from a street in Moscow after the mother took the daughter to Russia from him against his will and in defiance of a French court ruling.
Since then, he said, he had been afraid that the girl's mother might try to snatch her back, and had changed home in France several times.
But he told AFP he was ready to go to Russia to get his daughter back, even though he is subject to a Russian arrest warrant.
"I will go to Moscow. I will bring her back... She is my daughter," said Andre.
"If I enter Russia now it would be suicide. You saw what happened to me yesterday," he said. "I have to enter under a false name with a false passport."
While there was no sign of Belenkaya in Moscow, she too has not been shy of putting her side of the story before the public.
In an appearance on a Russian television chat-show after she lost her daughter last year, she said: "Judging from the father's behaviour, it's completely clear that this man has a maniacal attachment to the child that has absolutely nothing to do with a father's love for his child but with other feelings."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jXTqI0lqwt74I3o_7neXYrzynfAQ

This story is getting international attention. Many articles. Below is one more

This is London

23 March 2009

French girl,3,kidnapped by masked men

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23665733-details/French+girl,+3,+kidnapped+by+masked+men/article.do

* We need to keep a lookout in all our countries. I'll post it on an Irish site too.Please do so for your country.

Can someone check Interpol site please and see how it's posted on there? I can't find it. Thanks.

Elise's case as listed on Interpol website!!

Present family name: ANDRE
Forename: ELISE
Sex: FEMALE
Date of birth: 2 November 2005 (3 years old)
Place of birth: MOSCOW, Russia
Nationality: France
Father's family name & forename: ANDRE
Mother's maiden name & forename: BELENKAYA

Height: 0.97 meter <-> 38 inches
Weight: 12 kg <-> 26 pounds
Colour of hair: LIGHT BROWN
Distinguishing marks and characteristics: undefined
Language spoken: French

Date of disappearance: 20 March 2009 at 3 years old
Place of disappearance: France

http://www.interpol.int/public/data/children/missing/notices/data/2009/47/2009_8947.asp

Thanks so much Twiggy. I find that site hard to navigate at times.

Le Figaro NewsFlash

26 March 2009

Elise: the Mother confirms that she is in Russia


According to reports in the Parisien Newspaper this morning, the Mother of Elise, the 3 and a half yr old girl,kidnapped in Arles last Friday, is in Russia. The Mother herself confirmed this in 2 emails sent to Jean-Michel Andre, the father of the girl. The first message is dated Saturday at 4.30pm, the second was sent on Monday at 8.41 am.

"The Police are trying to determine with exact accuracy, the place where these messages were sent from",affirm the investigators, demonstrating caution.

"N'importe quel proche d'Irina a pu envoyer ce message, c'est peut-être aussi pour essayer de brouiller les pistes sur l'endroit où elle se trouve", note une source citée par le Parisien.

(can someone translate above piece better than google and other translators please?)

http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2009/03/26/01011-20090326FILWWW00321-elise-la-mere-affirmerait-etre-en-russie.php

L'Express

27 March 2009

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/2/la-petite-elise-introuvable-une-semaine-apres-son-enlevement_749892.html

A GOOGLE TRANSLATION

Early Elise found a week after her abduction.

PARIS - A week after her abduction in southern France, father of Elise asked the Russian authorities an official confirmation of the presence in Russia of the girl in the middle of a legal-family conflict.

Jean-Michel André has received two emails in which his Russian wife, Irina Belenkaïa says that the girl is now in Russia, seven days have been kidnapped in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône).

But these mails, "anyone could write," said the father to Paris, where he had come to meet with journalists to maintain an "extreme pressure" media on the case of her daughter, aged three and a half .

"I expect a government official (Russian). I think they will release it and give to the embassy (in France) when they have the opportunity to be certain what is there" he added. "This is a week that I have no news."

Monday, the Russian authorities have denied having located the girl and her mother in Moscow, as claimed by the local news agencies.

In France, two judicial inquiries were opened, one against Irina Belenkaïa for "embezzlement of minor ascending, the other against the two men who participated in the abduction on 20 March.

The floor of Tarascon was divested of the record in favor of the Aix-en-Provence, who has entrusted the investigation jointly with two magistrates.

"SHE IS ENTITLED TO HER FATHER"

Elise's mother is the subject of an international arrest warrant since 2008 after attempting to remove his daughter for the first time in 2007.

Elise was living again with her father in Arles since last September, when the latter went to fetch in Russia.

"I do not want to happen again in this desperate situation," he said Friday before the cameras, a teddy bear and a pair of sneakers and white roses in the pockets of his jacket.

"I brought these objects there so that people realize," he said. "I lived it for ten months. I can tell you that I am not led to more today than last year when everything started."

"I can not abandon my daughter. She is entitled to her father," he added.

According to Jean-Michel André, Russian justice has never awarded custody of his mother Elise, contrary to what the latter.

He claims to be in possession of a Russian court decision from December 2008 to his wife stating that it is impossible to respond to his request for divorce by simple letter.

He advocates a judicial decision "Duplex" with two judges, Russian and French, to rule on divorce and custody of the child.

Jean-Michel André would also "start something bigger than the solution to our personal situation. We must solve the case of bi-national children.

This will likely be a very complex case.Hope people find sense and think of Elise above everyone else!

L'Express.fr

31 March 2009

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/2/le-pere-de-la-petite-elise-lance-un-appel-a-temoins_750683.html

A GOOGLE TRANSLATION

The father of the little Elise appeals to witnesses

MARSEILLE - Eleven days after the abduction of his daughter in southern France, father of Elise has appealed Tuesday to find a man of Russian nationality which he could hold information on the girl child
In the heart of a legal-family conflict, Elise, three and a half years, was kidnapped on the streets March 20 in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhone) by two men and a woman.

"There is a man who probably has information to give. If we mean that we contacted," said Jean-Michel André waving to the press a photo of a man heading to the terrace of a bar of a ski resort.

"In this picture, it is in Switzerland, where it is usually this time of year, but I do not know where he is now," added the father of Elise.

"This is not accusing anyone, but it may hold important information," said his lawyer, Victor Gioia, without giving further details.

Source close to the investigation, said the man would be the companion Belenkaïa Irina, the mother of Elise, the girl who lived when Jean-Michel André went get her daughter in Russia. The child at his side on the photo is half-sister Elise, now aged eight years, he had with Irina Belenkaïa.

"We must be careful, we can not tell you. This is an extremely delicate situation," said Jean-Michel André, which launched a broader appeal to all persons "involved in the disappearance of a child".

ASSOCIATION "AIDELISE"

"Ten days ago that the monsters and barbarians who inhabit the imagination of the child burst into the universe of Elise," he said. "I do not know where she is. I had no reassuring news."

He said he received several e-mails, the last Monday, from the same mailbox. "These emails succeed without giving any information on this case," he said.

To mobilize public opinion, he created an association, "Aidelise" to "recover Elise, and finding solutions to global problems of Franco-Russian children." A site www.aidelise.fr. will be put online.

In France, two judicial inquiries were opened, one against Irina Belenkaïa for "embezzlement of minor ascending, the other against X which covers two men who participated in the abduction.

Elise's mother is the subject of an international arrest warrant since 2008 after attempting to remove his daughter for the first time in 2007. Elise was living again with his father in Arles since last September, when the latter went to fetch in Russia.

According to Jean-Michel André, Russian justice has never awarded custody of his mother Elise, contrary to what the latter. "My wife does not have custody of the child in Russia. It is a joint authority," he said.

If judge "premature" a new trip to Russia, it does not exclude the possibility. "If there is travel, it will be arriving at the airport. J'irai without hiding to claim my child," he said.

Le Journal du Dimanche

5 April 2009

http://www.lejdd.fr/cmc/societe/200914/sur-la-piste-de-slava-le-beau-pere-d-elise-_199894.html

A GOOGLE TRANSLATION

On the trail of "Slava," the stepfather of Elise

Fifteen days after being kidnapped in Arles by a woman and two henchmen, Elise, 3 ½ years, was never found. His father wondered about the role of the companion of his wife. Elise has called "Slava". An affectionate diminutive for Vladislav Isaev, Irina companion Belenkaya, his mother Russian, 39, and father of Bridget, his half-sister of 8 years.

"After having returned to Moscow, I asked him how was called the friend of her mother, she said 'Slava', grimace Jean-Michel André, 51, whose daughter 3 years half was removed in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) March 20. Collapsed since the disappearance, the French art of finger today this great man of 45 years in the commercial pharmaceutical sector, which drives a 4x4. A key figure who, like Irina Belenkaya and Elise remains found in Russia. "It was not one of the men who beat me but I'm sure he knows where my wife," L'Arlesienne pounds, which estimates that it could not fund and organize only the commando operation.

Vladislav Isaev, Jean-Michel André hears about in 2000. Researcher in an oceanographic laboratory in Paris, he met then the Russian, a student of Ossetian origin, which is preparing a thesis in geochemistry of the seabed. Pregnant, Irina Belenkaya repart live with the father in Moscow. But two years later, she left and found the French in India, in Goa, the former hippie destination where they were married March 15 2004. "I did not want to have children but she insisted, concedes there. Today, no one can doubt how much I love Elise."

Often party mission, the oceanographer is not in Moscow when his wife gave birth on 2 November 2005. Two years later, the couple takes the water and landed in Arles in the parents of the researcher. Immersed in his books, Irina Belenkaya, the sad, gives relatives have difficulty communicating with her husband. He contends that his wife, raised by his grandmother and deprived of maternal affection, would have suffered during his teenage violence of his stepfather. "The fact of having been mistreated and abused, it has changed," he says today with some spite.

Armed with a bouquet of red roses and irises

In autumn 2007, Jean-Michel André suspected his wife want to move to Moscow with Elise. On 9 November, he received the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône prohibition to leave the country for his wife. 20 The latter was arrested at the Marseille airport while trying to flee with the girl. 22, Jean-Michel André initiate a divorce proceeding. The 23, the family court judge (JAF) from Tarascon extends for one year the prohibition of exit. This does not prevent Irina Belenkaya disappearing with Elise on the same day.

For Jean-Michel André, who gets a month later a small consolation - the exclusivity of parental authority and custody of the missing girl - the ordeal began. In January 2008, a judicial inquiry for "removal of children" opened at Tarascon. Irina Belenkaya then the subject of an international arrest warrant. "At that time, the kidnapping was not a super priority of the police, said the father of Elise. I have lived ten months of hell. It was really horrible because I love my little! "

Obstinate and revenge, the French build a careful plan to recover and then participated in Moscow in the footsteps of his wife. He marker in the apartment of Vladislav Issaev Street Festivalnayat in the north of the capital. On 23 September 2008, accompanied by a Russian, Jean-Michel André intercepts the babysitter Elise at the bottom of the building and "neutralized" with a bouquet of red roses and irises! "It was interloquée but there was no brutality, certify there. PITCHOUNETTE Ma was a little scared but I did laugh and I showed him pictures of me with his mother." Having fled by road to Ukraine, the father and daughter join France unhindered. The Russian authorities, which do not recognize dual nationality, then launch an arrest warrant federal against the French just remove one of their nationals.

The mystery emails

In Moscow, the divorce proceedings initiated by Irina Belenkaya is long past. French side, the JAF Tarascon in January 2009 ordered a social investigation on the couple, international mediation and a right of access in a secure location, the mother of Elise. Who gets to pass the waiver of his international arrest warrant and therefore the possibility to travel freely in Europe. Convinced qu'Irina Belenkaya accompanied the two kidnappers who bludgeoned Elise's father two weeks ago, prosecutors in Aix-en-Provence has opened a criminal investigation against him for "removal of minors by ascending" and "complicity in aggravated assault with premeditation, the gathering and use of a weapon. " Found in a rental car in Montpellier (Hérault), then a train to Geneva, the mother and daughter no longer reappeared.

Hiding it in Switzerland, where Vladislav Isaev was sometimes skiing? Are they returned to Russia where the legal risks are low? No official source to confirm their entry into this country. And the family's apartment remains empty. Only four emails sent from the email Irina Belenkaya Jean-Michel André qu'Elise suggest would be on Russian soil. "We do not know who had written. This may be false tracks", tempers Victor Gioia, the lawyer for the father. Fearing a demobilization authorities, Jean-Michel André announced Tuesday the creation of Aidélise, a * calling the signing of a Franco-Russian law on child abduction. Private information from investigators, but decided to play the card of public opinion, the oceanographer now threatens to go to Moscow, even finishing behind bars. "It can not long endure this and live off his child, Victor warns Gioia. Everything must be done to avoid a sacrificial."

Nouvelobs.com

10 April 2009

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/societe/20090410.OBS2865/le_pere_delise_accuse_les_autorites_russes_de_ne_pas_fa.html

A GOOGLE TRANSLATION

Elise's father accuses Russian authorites of not making inquiries.

Jean-Michel André wants to make in the coming weeks in Russia to find her daughter who had been after him, won by his Russian mother

The father of the little Elise, kidnapped March 20 in Arles, April 9 Thursday accusing the Russian authorities of "not make any investigation." He was also determined to go in the coming weeks in Russia to try to locate her daughter. Jean-Michel André had just been received at the Department of Justice by members of the Cabinet of Rachida Dati, the Secretary of State for Human Rights Rama Yade, and the Quai d'Orsay, to review searches of the little girl of three and a half years.
The french government "has no information to suggest that the girl in Russia," said the spokesman for the Chancellor Guillaume Didier, but the father of Elise, who said conducting its own investigation, is convinced that it is there with her mother, Irina Belenkaya, with whom he is going through a divorce.

Brainwashing

"I think it is in Russia. The Russian police if it is the trouble, would not more than half a day to meet (...). Just check register which Campaign properties of the family (his mother). It's that simple, "he said. Jean-Michel André also accused "the Russian police did no investigation and the opinion of Interpol is not even distributed in schools or police stations."
At this meeting, "I was advised to go before the ground has been prepared by the work of ministries (...), through the Embassy which is in daily contact with Russian authorities , "he acknowledged. But we must act quickly because "we're going to wash the brain of Elise. In a few months, we will present a totally russifiée girl," he said, his face still swollen blows received during the kidnapping.

The father accused of kidnapping in Russia

While expressing "recognition" of the french government's efforts, he remained skeptical about the effectiveness of current approaches to cooperation with Russian authorities. "We need a political power in France and Russia.
We can find no solution in the current framework of actions taken, "he said, expressing willingness to wait" several weeks "before leaving." If no solution is found in few weeks, there will be no solution at all, "he said.
The problem, said his lawyer, Victor Gioia, is that "we can not have access to the charges against Jean-Michel André. We do not know what he is charged in Russia where he is accused of previously kidnapped her daughter.

New image of Elise

We have good news !!

Just watched France 24 news & Elise has been found in Hungary !! She was reunited with her father at a children's home there.

Her father has stressed it is not over yet though as both parents have single custody in France (father) & Russia (mother). He also stated that Elise is suffering too as had her mother yesterday and not her father, now has her father and not her mother. Apparently Elise asked him if he loved Mummy & he said yes.

Very complex !

France 24

14 April 2009

Father reunites with three-year-old daughter

http://www.france24.com/en/20090413-france-hungary-kidnapping-elise-three-year-reunited-father-andre-russian

Hi Tezza, you know I didn't realise he lost sight in one eye. I knew attack was vicious and I did notice a clouding in his eye but missed that bit. That's very tough. Hope they can sort the best out for Elise.

13/04/09

Elise found in Hungary

Elise, the Franco-Russian girl of three and a half years removed March 20 and her mother were arrested yesterday, Sunday, Hungary. The information was confirmed by the SMM spokesman for the prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence.
Elise, who lived in France, had been kidnapped by two men and one woman as she returned from school with his father, Jean-Michel André, who had been beaten. André had accused the child's mother, with whom he is going through a divorce to be the author of kidnapping Elise to return to Russia.
This is the eighth time Abduction Alert is used in France and, once again, with good results. For more information follow: Le Figaro

Posted 07:20

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