PARIS — French authorities have handed preliminary kidnapping charges to a 34-year-old man in the case of a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a wedding celebration in France. Grenoble prosecutor’s office said late Sunday that the man attended the same wedding last month. The suspect was one of two men detained then released last week without charges after being questioned. Bernard Meraud, the lawyer representing the suspect, told BFMTV channel that the DNA traces of the girl were found only because the missing child had played inside his client’s vehicle with another child. Police have questioned more than 200 potential witnesses and hundreds of volunteers have helped searching the area, but the girl was still missing on Monday morning.

Source: National Post September 04, 2017 07:19 UTC