According to their testimony, their ordeal lasted three hours before they managed to leave company with their torturers.
Three men, aged 17 to 37, said they were beaten, tortured and the youngest of them was even raped, during the night of September 2 to 3 in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) in the huis enclosed by a squat, occupied by young illegals who sell cigarettes on the sly.
The Bobigny public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for rape and acts of torture and barbarism, but so far no suspect has been arrested… and the victims have vanished.
It is one o'clock in the morning, when firefighters and police intervene on Boulevard de Chanzy to help three men who are suffering from numerous injuries.
All of Algerian origin, they bear knife cut marks on their arms.
On their body, the rescuers discovered traces of beatings and marks of cigarette burns.
Quickly questioned, they say that they were kidnapped in a squat on rue Désiré Préaux.
The trio reveal that he was locked up by eight attackers in two rooms of this lodge.
The police went there but there was no one left at this address.
The victims, without papers, have disappeared
The victims are taken to the hospital in Montreuil and Bobigny. They are heard by the police from the police station. These three men explain that they were assaulted on the background of a dispute over the sale of cigarettes. The 17-year-old said that around 10 p.m. he was surprised by four men armed with a baseball bat, a machete and a knife. "He was beaten and one of them even raped him," adds our source. The young man is then taken to another room where the other victims had been tied up by four other attackers.
The Bobigny prosecutor's office entrusted the investigations to the departmental judicial police service of Seine-Saint-Denis. "For the time being, the investigation is difficult," says a source familiar with the matter. Since their first hearings, these three men who are homeless and without papers have disappeared ”.
