Jean-Michel Andre after the attack.
Elise Andre, the missing 3-year-old.
Belenkaya's ex-husband, French national Jean-Michel Andre, has filed a report
with French police accusing her of abducting their daughter, Elise Andre, from
his home in the French town of Arles. Elise was abducted at about noon Friday by
two men who approached her father and beat him up before taking the girl away,
Trunayeva said.
Acting on a request from French authorities, Russian police will search for the
girl but will be unable to arrest the mother because Russian law does not allow
for parents to be classified as their children's abductors, Interior Ministry
spokesman Oleg Yelnikov said.
Elise was born in November 2005 in Moscow, according to Interpol's web site. In
September 2008, after Belenkaya and Andre were divorced, the Frenchman, together
with another man, approached Elise and her nanny on a Moscow street and took the
girl away.
A French court subsequently gave him custody of his daughter, though Belenkaya
has won a similar court order in Russia, Interfax reported.
Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin on Monday called for Elise's parents to undergo
psychiatric evaluations, saying their actions suggested "their brains may be out
of order," RIA-Novosti said.