He was suspended from his duties.
A volunteer firefighter at the Ploërmel barracks in Morbihan, a 45-year-old man is suspected of having sent several sexual text messages to a 13-year-old girl who came to visit the premises a few weeks earlier.
According to
Ouest-France
, it was the girl's father who alerted the police and filed a complaint after discovering the exchanges between his daughter and the firefighter.
The defendant and his victim would have met in May when the teenager showed up at the barracks with a friend to take some pictures of the trucks.
According to
Ouest-France
, the forties would have offered a quick visit to the premises to the two young girls and would then have recovered the complainant's number.
The firefighter has since sent several messages with a sexual connotation to the 13-year-old girl.
A police investigation was opened and the suspect was heard.
He was suspended from his duties while the investigation was carried out.
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