He faces thirty years of criminal imprisonment: a 21-year-old man was indicted for "attempted kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor" and "sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor," said Thursday, July 22 to the press. the public prosecutor of Grenoble, Éric Vaillant.
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The case dates back to June 30.
That Wednesday, three little girls aged 9, 10 and 13 stroll through their district of Roussillon (Isère) by bike, skate and rollerblade.
But their walk is disturbed by a man who approaches them, follows them when they hurry to walk away and ends up grabbing the ten-year-old,
"the rearmost of the group
.
"
The girl manages to flee
The other two little girls hasten to warn the adults as the man leads the victim to a corner.
"The child indicates that the individual holds it, kisses it several times then takes out his penis,"
recalls Éric Vaillant
.
The young man would also have "
tried to lift her to take her in his vehicle".
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The ten-year-old girl manages to escape and join her friends.
Arrested, the suspect was taken into custody at the Roussillon gendarmerie.
He was then brought before an examining magistrate and indicted for "attempted kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor" and "sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor".
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On the decision of a judge of freedoms and detention, the young man was finally placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the Grenoble prosecutor's office, for the benefit of which the Roussillon prosecutor's office, with territorial jurisdiction, relinquished jurisdiction.