Police rescued boy after neighbour reported sounds of a child coming from vehicle in Hagenbach in eastern France
A malnourished nine-year-old boy was rescued after being locked in his father’s van since 2024 in eastern France, a prosecutor said.
A neighbour alerted police to “sounds of a child” coming from a vehicle in the village of Hagenbach, near the borders of Switzerland and Germany.
After forcing the van open on Monday, officers found a child “lying in a foetal position, naked, covered by a blanket on top of a mound of trash and near excrement”, the prosecutor, Nicolas Heitz, said.
He added the child was malnourished and could no longer walk because he had been sitting down for so long.
