Four people, including three minors, were presented to a judge on Thursday for an indictment for "kidnapping, kidnapping in an organized gang" and aggravated violence, acts committed on a teenager in a cellar in Beauvais (Oise), announced the prosecution.

The victim, a 17-year-old young man, had just left his Beauvais high school to go to the station bound for Méru, last Friday around 5.30 p.m., when he was “kidnapped by several people with concealed faces and placed by force , a hood on the head, in the trunk of a car, ”recalls in a press release the prosecutor of Senlis, Loïc Abrial.

A video had circulated on social networks, spotted by the victim's father and showing the teenager "held in a cellar, his face swollen".

Released “a few hours later following the intervention of third parties”, the young man explained to the police that he had been “beaten up”, specifies the prosecutor.

“Twelve days of total incapacity for work”

Victim of several injuries and in particular a fracture of the orbital floor, he was issued "twelve days of total incapacity for work" (ITT).

The investigations led to the arrest of three minors aged 16 to 17, placed in police custody on Tuesday.

A fourth suspect, aged 20, presented himself to the police the following day.

During their hearings, all "challenged their involvement", says Abrial.

Judicial information was opened on Thursday for "kidnapping and kidnapping committed in an organized gang", and "willful violence" aggravated, "in a meeting and with the use or threat of a weapon, in this case a knife".

The Beauvais prosecutor's office then withdrew from the investigation in favor of the criminal center of Senlis.

“Currently heard by an investigating judge with a view to their indictment”, the four suspects will be “presented in the evening to the judge of freedoms and detention”, the prosecution having “requested their placement in pre-trial detention”, writes Abrial.

Several of them were already known to the courts.

The investigations carried out by the judicial police of Creil and the police station of Beauvais should make it possible "to specify the reasons which led to these acts of extreme violence", concludes the prosecutor.

The suspects face thirty years of criminal imprisonment.

According to a police source, the victim previously educated in Méru, a town between Paris and Beauvais, was kidnapped in the Saint-Jean district in Beauvais, which a strong rivalry opposes to Méru.

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Teenager tortured in the Oise: Four people arrested and placed in police custody

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Oise: A 17-year-old teenager tortured in a cellar against a backdrop of rivalry between Beauvais and Méru

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