A 36-year-old man was indicted for having kidnapped under threat, then drugged before releasing them, two teenage girls in Charente-Maritime.
One of 17 and then an 11 year old girl.
The man, known to justice for acts of aggravated violence in 2007 and 2009, admitted during his police custody "having kidnapped these two young girls by having acted under the influence of impulses and premonitions", specified the prosecutor in a press release.
Threatened by a weapon then drugged
On September 10, the mother of an 11-year-old girl reported her disappearance as she returned from her college in Royan.
Shortly after, the girl was walking home, having been dropped off not far from there by her captor, "greatly shocked and apparently under the influence of drugs".
She then recounted "having been abducted by a man at gunpoint (a revolver or a pistol) then having been forced to take medication" before being escorted back to her home.
Royan investigators then made the link with a similar case in a neighboring town: the kidnapping on August 26 of a 17-year-old girl in Saint-Palais Sur Mer, also threatened by her kidnapper, at the using a knife, then sedated and finally released a few hours later "without having suffered a priori violence other than that linked to her kidnapping and confinement".
The judicial police of La Rochelle Orléans was then seized by the prosecution, then the central office for the fight against violence against people.
The description of the kidnapper by the two victims allowed the realization of a composite portrait.
"Hanging out with children regenerated him"
A judicial information of the count of kidnapping and sequestration of several people and administration of harmful substance on a minor of 15 years, was opened by the prosecutor's office of Saintes on September 14.
“The same evening a suspect was apprehended and taken into custody”.
A search of his home allowed "to formally establish his involvement in the two kidnappings" and the man, having admitted the facts, was indicted Thursday evening and remanded in custody.
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"Diagnosed with schizophrenia", he had collected information on the victims at home ... The first technical expertise carried out on his computer also made it possible to exhume child pornography images.
In custody, the 30-year-old assured that "seeing children regenerated him," says a source close to the investigation.
But he did not give a coherent explanation for his gesture ... "
