The Grasse public prosecutor's office referred a 13-year-old minor to be presented to a children's judge.
He had been taken into police custody for having threatened a passenger on a train in Cannes with a weapon to extract money from her.
According to information from the daily Nice-Matin, the offender dropped his knife at the time of the assault, which allowed the victim to flee when the train stopped, at the Frayère station. .
Tuesday, at the Cannes police station, he denied the facts in the presence of his home educator.
At 13, he already has a dozen offenses registered on his criminal record.
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