A 14-year-old girl was taken in by the emergency services on Sunday in Leers, in the North, claiming to have been kidnapped and raped by an individual for several days, indicates a police source in
Le Figaro
, confirming information from Actu 17. L The man has since been arrested.
According to testimony collected by
La Voix du Nord
, the respondent's neighbor was alerted on Sunday by calls for help from an apartment in the residence.
The latter then approached the bay window of the apartment, located on the ground floor and heard the teenager in a state of shock: "
She was telling me that she had been raped, that she was going to die. , that the man had locked her in, but had just gone shopping.
The neighbor managed to free the victim, who was naked at the time and whose body shows signs of abuse.
Psychiatric disorders
Police and firefighters were immediately notified and the teenager was taken to hospital, where she will undergo a forensic examination. According to her first statements, she says she ran away from the family home last Monday, then kidnapped and held for four days. According to
La Voix du Nord
, the victim is originally from Iraq and resides in Douai.
The police arrested the suspect Sunday afternoon, while he was returning to his home.
“
A man, in his thirties, was arrested and taken into police custody.
Suffering from psychiatric disorders, he is now hospitalized in a specialized establishment
, ”indicates the Lille prosecutor's office in
Figaro
.
A police source calls us, however, to be "
careful
" regarding the details of the story of the young girl.
For its part, the Douai prosecutor's office told
La Voix du Nord
not to have received a report for a worrying disappearance.
The investigation is continuing to determine the exact course of the case.