He has come a long way.
Kidnapped and tortured for three days, without eating or drinking, a man in his twenties succeeded in distorting company to his jailers, this Tuesday morning, in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), before take refuge with a neighbor.
Two suspects were arrested by the police, deployed in large numbers.
In the morning, a simple phone call went to the emergency police.
A person has just taken in an injured young man who says he escaped from an apartment on Quai Henri-Pourchassé.
On the spot, the officials discovered a victim with a slashed face and hands.
She explains to them that she had been kidnapped three days earlier by a man armed with a knife in Paris.
Slashed face and hands
For three days, the unfortunate man, tied to a bed, is tortured by three men.
They slash her face, especially her cheeks, and her hands with a knife.
They deprive him of food and water and use a dog, such as an American Staffordshire terrier, to intimidate him and make him talk.
After three days of ordeal, the victim takes advantage of the sleep of one of the executioners and the absence of the other two to undo his ties and escape.
Fairly quickly, police reinforcements were deployed.
"I thought of an intervention by the search and intervention brigade when I saw plenty of heavily armed police," said a witness, impressed by such a deployment of force.
No BRI on site, but an assault column from the Val-de-Marne security and intervention company (CSI).
Big police intervention this Tuesday morning in Ivry-sur-Seine after the kidnapping of a young man.
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The presence of a potentially dangerous dog and the profile of the criminals worried the police.
Heavily armed and helmets, they break down the door and invest the place.
They neutralize a first suspect without too much difficulty.
The frightened animal takes refuge on a balcony, before falling and injuring itself.
Examined by the firefighters, he was taken care of by a dog team and taken to the department's pound.
Cash and cocaine at the scene
During the searches, the police got their hands on cash and drugs, including cocaine.
The tension rises a notch when the victim, taken in charge by the firefighters, believes he recognizes a second suspect who arrives on a scooter.
At the sight of the police, the pilot turns around and tries to escape.
He was caught up and arrested a few streets away.
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The two suspects, one in his twenties, the second in his thirties, were taken into custody in the premises of the judicial police of Val-de-Marne, which was entrusted investigation.
The victim was hospitalized at the Kremlin-Bicêtre.
