A young man was killed and a young woman kidnapped Thursday evening in Courville (Marne), announced the Reims prosecutor's office, specifying that significant resources were deployed on the morning of Friday May 28 to try to find the kidnappers.
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Thursday around 8:00 p.m., the gendarmes were "
asked for facts of kidnapping of a young woman of 19 just committed in Courville
", in the west of the department, said in a statement the public prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette.
On the spot, they discovered in a vehicle a young man of 20 very seriously injured who died a few hours later, continues Matthieu Bourrette who opened in the night an investigation in flagrante delicto for murder and kidnapping in an organized gang. The investigation was entrusted to the research section of Reims.
"
Very heavy resources were immediately engaged by the gendarmerie, both to find the young woman and to apprehend the perpetrator (s)
", further indicates the prosecutor. At the time of writing this press release Friday morning, no arrest had yet taken place. “
We made a large deployment with neighboring departments to try to find the vehicles concerned. We are continuing the research,
”General Bruno Louvet, commander of the Marne gendarmerie group, explained to AFP, specifying that 80 people had been mobilized in the Marne department alone.