The town of Langeac in Haute-Loire department in south-central France was shocked over the arrest of a 6-year-old boy of Armenian origin, Vazgen Asryan.

The boy was taken to the prison in the city of Nimes, where his father, arrested a week before for stealing gasoline, was placed.

Vazgen’s father is an Armenian who fled for Russia, and further to France, to seek for a political refuge, which he was denied, according to Paris-Match.

Representatives of the prefecture assured the journalists that the detainment was performed in accordance with law and with all respect to the person. The father and the son are being kept in the center of administrative detainment where with all necessary living conditions provided, InoPressa reported.