A couple of Frenchmen tried on the fifth defendant that he was planning to sacrifice the his five -year -old son In the Moroccan section of the Sahara desert. The case has caused a shock in French public opinion.

The two music teachers from Karkan, near Bordeaux, were arrested in southern Spain in December 2023 before boarding a ship for Tanger.

They had recently stifled their apartment near the city of Bordeaux and left France with a new four -wheel drive vehicle.

The Bordeaux Public Prosecutor’s Office had received a complaint from a relative a few days ago, which expressed concerns about comments made by the father.

The relative claimed that the father had said he wanted to “sacrifice” the child in the Sahara desert Because he thought he was “demonized”.

The father, named Florian L., denies that he ever said this, his lawyer, Audre Busigion, said. “He never had the intention of hurting his son in any way,” he added.

The couple categorically rejected the accusations of being a member of a criminal gang and did not perform their parental duties, their defense team said according to the Daily Mail.

Mother’s lawyer, Marie L. L. Orelipi, said the couple had gone to Morocco two years earlier, and wanted to return for a “indefinite period”.

But Merlen Lampadi, who represents the child’s interests, argued that “The mystical comments and the couple’s inexplicable behavior” They had jeopardized their son’s life.

It is said that the child when he was found reported that “It was cold, that he was scared and that he was making the snake inside us.”

For her part, the Spanish militia said that parents seemed to suffer from “psychiatric problems”.

Two months before the arrests, during a storm, the father was found naked in the forest of a nearby city, Le Monde said. Was hospitalized for two weeks.

Marie L.’s sister told the newspaper that Florian L. had “faced recent health problems” and rejected media reports as “excessive”.

“While it is undoubtedly needed to help, they and my sister as premeditated child killers,” he said.

The child is now under the care of his grandparents on his mother’s side, said lawyer Merlen Lampadi.

Grandparents “have done a lot of work to deconstruct all these ideas so that they are no longer afraid of the outside world, the others,” he added.

The Bordeaux Public Prosecutor’s Office received the complaint from the relative on December 19, 2023, two days before the couple’s arrest.

The woman, who in previous reports was presented as a couple’s girlfriend, said the father had said she was planning a trip to Maghreb to hold a “initiation ceremony”.

A day later, an investigation began and the parents were eventually imprisoned in Spain, Le Monde said in January 2024.

A woman from Carkan said one of her girlfriends was planning to subdue the couple’s home in early January. “One day, he told me that their home was sealed and that they were wanted, he didn’t know why,” he told Le Monde.

Mayor Patrick Meifren said the couple opened a Music Education Center (CEM), teaching music to “up to 250” children.
As he said, “Florian could sometimes be seduced. He could explode from anger, but he calmed down after a few minutes and apologized. “

‘It was impossible Imagine that these two could someday be considered suspicious that they wanted to hurt their child. “

Meifren also said that the couple was “part of the community,” Le Figaro said.

“It’s even more strange, as their child – who was studying at home – was everything for them,” he told Le Monde.

The mayor of Cancean said that parents “They were very careful about their child.”