Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credits: Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 4:21 p.m., February 6, 2024
Recently released from prison, an almost thirty-year-old man was taken into police custody on Monday after trying to kidnap a ten-year-old girl who was waiting in front of her school in La Garde in the Var. The child was waiting in front of her primary school around 8 a.m. when an “individual joined her, started a discussion with her and grabbed her by the arm”.
An almost thirty-year-old, recently released from prison, was taken into police custody on Monday after trying to kidnap a ten-year-old girl who was waiting in front of her school in La Garde in the Var, we learned from the prosecution . The child was waiting in front of her primary school around 8 a.m. when an "individual joined her, started a discussion with her and grabbed her by the arm", detailed the public prosecutor of Toulon, Samuel Finielz.
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A member of the school's educational team then intervened, causing the suspect to flee, who was arrested shortly after and placed in police custody for "attempted kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor, acts of a criminal nature ", specified the magistrate.
The suspect had previously followed another teenage girl
“About twenty minutes earlier, he had followed another teenage girl for several hundred meters as she tried to get to her bus stop.” But the young girl “realized it” and “was able to be taken by car to school by a neighbor whom she came across by chance,” added Samuel Finielz.
Started on Monday, the custody of the suspect, "already convicted on several occasions", notably for sexual assaults, but which did not target minors, was extended by 24 hours, according to the prosecutor, who specified that this man was released from prison at the end of 2023. A judicial investigation will “very certainly” be opened, “probably Wednesday early in the morning”, also underlined the magistrate.