Antoine de Brugerolle de Freysinette

Antoine, aged 6 and a half, was said by his mother to have disappeared while she was out having dinner with her new partner. No trace of tampering in the apartment.

http://www.kidnapping.be/antoine/index.html

The theory of abduction has taken precedence over running away, with the announcement on Sunday of the opening of an investigation for, "abduction and sequestration of a minor," after the disappearance of Antoine, aged six and a half, from his mother's home in Issoire (Puy-de-Dome)
"The more time passes, the more the idea of running away is losing consistency and I am not very optimistic," stated Jean-Yves Coquillat, prosecutor of the Republic for Clermont-Ferrand, during a press conference at the Clermont-Ferrand courthouse.

"There are some things that I can tell you and others which I cannot tell you because this is a very difficult investigation, (and) I cannot take the risk of compromising it," the magistrate added in a serious voice.

Aged 23, Antoine's mother told the investigators that she went out for dinner at a restaurant with her new partner, on Thursday evening at around 8pm. On their return, at around 9.15pm, they discovered the child's disappearance.

No trace of tampering had been found in the apartment situated on the first floor of an old building in the centre of Issoire, giving credence to, in the first instance, the idea that the little boy, described as, "very resourceful," and "assertive," had run away.

Especially as, according to his mother, Antoine had allegedly taken a few biscuits in his sports bag.

Waitress in an Issoire bar-restaurant, the young woman was interviewed twice by the investigators and stuck to her statements, according to the prosecutor.

According to her, Antoine, who had returned to school on September 2nd, didn't go back from the following day, because he was suffering from gastro-enteritis.

But since that date, there is not, "one credible witness statement from anyone reportedly having seen the child," M. Coquillat stressed.

The child, "was not seen by doctors. There isn't a medical certificate," was further noted by the magistrate, for whom , "nothing corroborates," the mother's version, she herself being on sick leave for an unspecified reason.

In addition, the young woman never, "responded to calls from the school's head teacher who was worried by the child's absence," the prosecutor added, regretting that the latter had not informed the gendarmerie.

Like her new partner, aged 29, Antoine's mother is, "known to police services." In 2003, she was sentenced by the Clermont-Ferrand magistrates court to 18 months in prison, of which 12 months was suspended, for trafficking in narcotics, according to the prosecutor.

On Sunday morning, thirty police officers were still combing the area around the child's home with the "hope of finding him alive."

"We started checking places we had already been, especially the sheds," lieutenant-colonel Pascal Palayer, communications officer for the Auvergne regional Gendarmerie, explained to AFP.

Little Antoine's description.

Antoine is 1.10m tall, weighs 19kg, has chestnut hair and pierced ears. At the time of his disappearance, he was wearing blue fatigue-type trousers, a white T-shirt, a light blue sweater, a brown jacket and red, black and silver Nike shoes.

http://www.kidnapping.be/antoine/index.html

Editor's note: the date given by Antoine's mother for his disappearance is Thursday September 11th.



I haven't seen any comment about messages of support sent to Antoine's mother or prayers being said by the virtuous twosome.

Disappearance of little Antoine: Search to end

Google translation

Published on 18/09/2008 at 12:43 - Amended 18/09/2008 at 20:14

The divers, speleologists, dog teams and other police mobilized in Issoire to Le Puy-de-Dome to find Antoine, 6 years old, reported missing on September 11, will cease their search. "It makes a week that the search, there was explored, including underground, areas of water, and so on. "In vain," said Lieutenant-Colonel Pascal Palayer, communication officer of the gendarmerie the Auvergne region. "Starting tonight, focuses on the judicial inquiry, a less visible, which can last for weeks," he explained, noting that thirty gendarmes were mobilized within the cell investigation.
"We are not privileged hypothesis," he added."

It went on September 8 in the mother of Antoine and there had not seen the child. "This testimony is not neutral, it is not uninteresting, but there is no trigger that will help solve the investigation," he said. "If she had seen Antoine on the 8th, then it would have changed things in tightening the schedule," explained Wednesday evening the prosecutor of Clermont-Ferrand Jean-Yves Coquillat, indicating that the mother and her companion would be heard "by the judge d 'instruction in a timely manner. "

So far, three witnesses saw the child. One saw on September 6 in the evening at Issoire. L The other two saw the child, alone, on September 2 to 23 hours and 3 in the afternoon. For now, investigators have not therefore no other evidence on the activities of the child between 6 and September 11.

http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-societe/disparition-du-petit-antoine-fin-des-recherches/920/0/274887

The child was 'reported missing' on September the 11th.

But no credible witness had seen him since 2nd Sept. :(

He had not been at school since then......and no-one had answered the head of the schools calls.

Oh, and the couple 'allegedly' had 'gone out to dinner' leaving the child alone!

Nah......Clarice will NOT be mentioning this case!

Ambersuz wrote:The child was 'reported missing' on September the 11th.

But no credible witness had seen him since 2nd Sept. :(

He had not been at school since then......and no-one had answered the head of the schools calls.

Oh, and the couple 'allegedly' had 'gone out to dinner' leaving the child alone!

Nah......Clarice will NOT be mentioning this case!

This sounds a bit suspicious

Ambersuz wrote:The child was 'reported missing' on September the 11th.

But no credible witness had seen him since 2nd Sept. :(

He had not been at school since then......and no-one had answered the head of the schools calls.

Oh, and the couple 'allegedly' had 'gone out to dinner' leaving the child alone!

Nah......Clarice will NOT be mentioning this case!

MG dont they ever learn?

The first line says it all:

disappeared while she was out having dinner with her new partner. No trace of tampering in the apartment.

Antoine: his mother involves justice

Thierry Zoccolan AFP / Archives
The mother of little Antoine, disappeared on September 11 at Issoire (Puy-de-Dome)in France, regrets that the prosecutor of Clermont-Ferrand "focuses its investigations to prove his involvement" at the expense of some tracks, a charge denied by the parquet. "It has focused its investigations to demonstrate our commitment to put us in custody and to ignore the results of the investigation that do not serve his hypothesis," says the young woman.
Contacted by AFP, the prosecutor of Clermont-Ferrand has defended these "accusations", recalling that "it is not (him) who heads the investigation," but the "two judges of instruction "in charge of the inquiry. "If it complains that the investigation does not, why refuse to answer certain questions gendarmes, this is not the best way," he added. "There are few surveys in which it was made as quickly as many resources, human, technical and the Institute of Criminal Research of the Gendarmerie (IRCG)", argued the magistrate, rejecting "the accusation that we do not seek Antoine. "
The prosecutor also explained that if the police did not trigger the alarm abduction, because "it fits very specific criteria, the certainty of a kidnapping and evidence to identify the perpetrator and it it has never had, "he said.

Three weeks after the disappearance of small Antoine at Issoire (Puy-de-Dome), his mother confides in Figaro deplored the suspicions against them and reveal several previously unpublished testimony. According to her, several neighbors have indeed heard a mysterious vehicle noise and not near the family home on 11 September to 20.30.

LE FIGARO. LE FIGARO. - Three weeks just that your son Antoine has disappeared. In what state of mind are you?

- I am outraged that the prosecutor understood that I am responsible for the disappearance of my son in any way whatsoever. From the beginning, the judge seeks to destroy my reputation because it began in mind that my companion and I, because of our record and our way of life atypical have the profile of perpetrators ideals. As a result, it has focused its investigations to demonstrate our commitment to put us in custody and to ignore the elements of investigation that are not his hypothesis.

What do you mean?

By reading the file of the investigation, I realized that several important stories, collected in the early days of the investigation, have never been mentioned or publicly, or in front of me while they may be essential. my upstairs neighbor and a friend of hers who was home that night have said they appeared to have heard at about 20:30, the sound of a car engine and a crackling gearbox. Looking outside, they would at the same time overview of lighthouses in the street. Shortly afterward, they indicate finally have heard no noise on the stairs. Antoine was then alone at home, which I left the door open so he can get out in case of problems. But I wonder if we really used this information.

Other witnesses have reported unusual during this evening?

No, but another of my neighbors told investigators that she remembers seeing the light in the room with my son on September 11 in late afternoon. She explains that it seems to have heard play around 19.15. This proves that contrary to what since the beginning the prosecutor, Antoine was with me shortly before his disappearance I said. After his return normally, Sept. 2, my son was suffering from gastroenteritis. Once restored, he refused to return to class and I agreed to keep a few more days with me. From the beginning of the investigation, one of my relatives had told police he saw Antoine with me on September 9. Unfortunately, this did not prevent the prosecutor to believe that had disappeared for several days.

A young woman who came home on September 8, however, says Antoine was not there.

The girl, whose testimony was treated without any decline, rose only five minutes, around 23 hours. At that time, Anthony was in the process to sleep in her room, door closed because my apartment is very small.

During a search, the police discovered two traces of blood in the room with Antoine. How do you explain that?

During the last six months, Antoine injured his foot by breaking a bottle of perfume, he cut with a Laguiole because he wanted to do the dishes, he bled from the nose, he mispronounced several times like all children. In short: it is not surprising that the police have found a little blood in me.

What do you know of justice?

We really explore all avenues that searches were continuing and that the photo of my son is finally available on the entire territory. When my lawyer went to the railway station and the station in Clermont, she was surprised to find there no pictures of my son. In these circumstances, how do you want to recognize the potential witnesses? It's simple: since the beginning, I feel that the prosecutor does not seek a child, but a corpse.

Have you any idea what could happen to him?

Since his death, I moved all scenarios thousand times. From the beginning, I provided the police a list of people who could possibly want me wrong. The only person whose innocence is certain to me is my boyfriend because he did not leave in the hours surrounding the disappearance of Antoine.

"The gendarmes explore the trail of the heinous abduction

"means worthy of the case Empain" have been made

I found just one English reference on the Net, which I'll reproduce below also.

The main facts are that Antoine B was reported missing by the mother and her new partner.

They claimed that Antoine was abducted whilst they were eating out at a nearby restaurant [what could have given them that idea?! - T.B.]. The mother also claimed that Antoine had 'run away from home with a ruck-sack and a packet of biscuits'.

The police forensic team found two tiny spots of Antione's blood on a sheet that had just been thoroughly cleaned.

And on Thursday the mother was arrested for questioning.

And that's about all I know about the case:

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ENGLISH ARTICLE FROM ENGLISH LANGUAGE 'RIVIERA RADIO', MONACO, THURS 26th SEPTEMBER:

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In Clermont-Ferrand, the mother of a little boy missing since 11 September, has been arrested, along with her partner and 6 other people. The 23-year-old mother reported her son missing, saying he had run away from home with a ruck sack and a packet of biscuits. Antoine, aged 6, was last seen on 6 September.

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GOOGLE REFERENCES:
L'Express Disparition d'Antoine: suspension des recherches

AFP - Sep 27, 2008
Parallèlement, la mère d'Antoine, Alexandrine, 23 ans, placée en garde à vue mercredi à Clermont-Ferrand puis remise en liberté jeudi soir sans charge ...
Antoine : "toutes les hypothèses sont d’actualité" Europe1
L’enquête sur la disparition du petit Antoine sera «longue»

Libération
Antoine : recherches suspendues M6.fr
LaDépêche.fr - nouvelobs.com
all 442 news articles »

AFP L'enquête sur la disparition d'Antoine n'écarte toujours pas la ...

AFP - Sep 26, 2008
La mère d'Antoine, Alexandrine, une serveuse de restaurant de 23 ans, placée en garde à vue mercredi à Clermont-Ferrand, a été remise en liberté jeudi soir. ...

Continental News La mère d'Antoine brise le silence
Continental News, France - Sep 27, 2008
L'enquête devrait durer "des mois, voire des années", selon le procureur de la République de Clermont-Ferrand. Les enquêteurs ont fait tout ce qu'ils ...

La mère du petit Antoine «ulcérée» et «excédée» Le Figaro
La mère d'Antoine se confie Le journal du dimanche en ligne
all 14 news articles »

TF1 Antoine : un nouveau témoignage pris en compte
Europe1, France - Sep 18, 2008
... d'Antoine avait rapporté ces propos à son concubin, qui lui a demandé de la faire venir", a raconté le procureur de la République de Clermont-Ferrand. ...

Disparition d'Antoine: le témoignage d'une jeune fille "n'apporte ... France Info
L'enquête sur la disparition d'Antoine, 6 ans, piétine à Issoire AFP
Le parquet abandonne la thèse de la fugue du petit Antoine Le Point
France Info - Europe1

all 372 news articles »

nouvelobs.com Disparition d'Antoine: les prélèvements n'ont rien donné
AFP - Sep 22, 2008

CLERMONT-FERRAND (AFP) — Les prélèvements effectués à divers endroits fréquentés par Antoine, 6 ans et demi, signalé disparu le 11 septembre à Issoire ...

Antoine : les traces de sang inexploitables Libération
Des gouttes de sang dans la chambre d'Antoine TF1
Disparition d'Antoine: de nouvelles investigations lundi dans l ... nouvelobs.com

Le Figaro - Le journal du dimanche en ligne
all 29 news articles »

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The search for Antoine B of underground caves and grottoes in the area has been suspended, the mother has been released after 26 hours' questioning (but may face more questioning later), and 'the mother has counter-attacked' :

http://www.metrofrance.com/x/metro/2008/09/28/EBnp2DeduQ/index.xml

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Le Figaro 10/11/08



Antoine's mother and her partner, who state they don't drive, were allegedly seen driving alone in a car.
Consulting vehicle licensing records, checking with garages, searching through motorway tolls: two months after little Antoine's disappearance in Issoire, the police step up their investigations with the hope of finding a white Peugeot car in which a witness states having seen the child's mother and her partner driving on the outskirts of the small town, alone, a few days before the alert was issued.

Considered to be "reliable" by the investigators of the unit "Disappearance 63", this witness statement, if confirmed by physical evidence, could move the case forward because since she reported her son's disappearance on September 11th at 9.47pm, Alexandrine Brugerolle de Fraissinette, who has neither a car nor driving licence, maintains that she does not know how to drive - same with her partner, Sébastien Ribière. "Since the start, their defence rests notably on this statement, a source close to the case reveals. If the child's body has not been found in Issoire in spite of a great many searches, we must accept that someone has transported it out of the town, probably in a motor vehicle - of which they state they are incapable."

Bin bags
In the days that followed the child's disappearance, the police wondered why Alexandrine Brugerolle obtained a pack of 100 litre bin bags on September 10th, which were not found in her home. In custody, she indicated having made that purchase in error before going back and exchanging them at Monoprix for 30 litre bags. However, checks with the supermarket did not confirm that version, the check-outs not having retained any trace of the exchange.


Exploring all leads, including that of an abduction, the investigators are also interested in a debt of "several thousand euros" that Alexandrine's partner allegedly ran up in connection with drug trafficking near Clermont. "At the moment, that hypothesis is not backed up by any real facts", a source close to the investigation explains, however. In the end, several police officers continue to work on the theory according to which the child could have been taken from his mother by a third party wishing to offer him a "better" life.


In this context, checks were made with the people around Alexandrine, for the moment, without result. Antoine's mother, aged 23, recently found a place to live in Clermont-Ferrand. "Before that, for a time she took refuge with her father who left soon after her birth, recently moved back to Puy-de-Dôme," her lawyer Anne-Laure Lebert explains, and goes on: "My client, who is unjustly suspected from the start, is trying to stay hopeful of seeing her son alive again - but she is afraid that the delay at the beginning of the investigation may not be made up."

Antoinette wrote:Le Figaro 10/11/08



Antoine's mother and her partner, who state they don't drive, were allegedly seen driving alone in a car.
Consulting vehicle licensing records, checking with garages, searching through motorway tolls: two months after little Antoine's disappearance in Issoire, the police step up their investigations with the hope of finding a white Peugeot car in which a witness states having seen the child's mother and her partner driving on the outskirts of the small town, alone, a few days before the alert was issued.

Considered to be "reliable" by the investigators of the unit "Disappearance 63", this witness statement, if confirmed by physical evidence, could move the case forward because since she reported her son's disappearance on September 11th at 9.47pm, Alexandrine Brugerolle de Fraissinette, who has neither a car nor driving licence, maintains that she does not know how to drive - same with her partner, Sébastien Ribière. "Since the start, their defence rests notably on this statement, a source close to the case reveals. If the child's body has not been found in Issoire in spite of a great many searches, we must accept that someone has transported it out of the town, probably in a motor vehicle - of which they state they are incapable."

Bin bags
In the days that followed the child's disappearance, the police wondered why Alexandrine Brugerolle obtained a pack of 100 litre bin bags on September 10th, which were not found in her home. In custody, she indicated having made that purchase in error before going back and exchanging them at Monoprix for 30 litre bags. However, checks with the supermarket did not confirm that version, the check-outs not having retained any trace of the exchange.


Exploring all leads, including that of an abduction, the investigators are also interested in a debt of "several thousand euros" that Alexandrine's partner allegedly ran up in connection with drug trafficking near Clermont. "At the moment, that hypothesis is not backed up by any real facts", a source close to the investigation explains, however. In the end, several police officers continue to work on the theory according to which the child could have been taken from his mother by a third party wishing to offer him a "better" life.


In this context, checks were made with the people around Alexandrine, for the moment, without result. Antoine's mother, aged 23, recently found a place to live in Clermont-Ferrand. "Before that, for a time she took refuge with her father who left soon after her birth, recently moved back to Puy-de-Dôme," her lawyer Anne-Laure Lebert explains, and goes on: "My client, who is unjustly suspected from the start, is trying to stay hopeful of seeing her son alive again - but she is afraid that the delay at the beginning of the investigation may not be made up."

And the link for the above!

http://frommybigdesk.blogspot.com/2008/11/disappearance-of-antoine-de-brugerolle.html



ETA: I believe there are a few other posts on that blog about Antoine!