Four people, including three minors, were brought before a judge on Thursday September 15 with a view to an indictment for "
kidnapping, sequestration in an organized gang
" and aggravated violence, acts committed on a teenager in a cellar in Beauvais (Oise ), announced the prosecution.
The victim, a 17-year-old young man, had just left his high school in Beauvais to go to the station bound for Méru, last Friday around 5:30 p.m., when he was “
kidnapped by several people with concealed faces and placed by force, a balaclava on his head, in the trunk of a car
, ”recalls in a press release the prosecutor of Senlis, Loïc Abrial.
"Total incapacity for work"
A video had circulated on social networks, spotted by the victim's father and showing the teenager "
held in a cellar, his face swollen
".
Released “
a few hours later following the intervention of third parties
”, the young man explained to the police that he had been “
beaten
up ”, specifies the prosecutor.
Victim of several injuries and in particular a fracture of the orbital floor, he was issued "
twelve days of total incapacity for work
" (ITT).
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The investigations led to the arrest of three minors aged 16 to 17, placed in police custody on Tuesday.
A fourth suspect, aged 20, presented himself to the police the following day.
During their hearings, all "
challenged their involvement
", says Loïc Abrial.
Judicial information was opened on Thursday for "
kidnapping and kidnapping committed in an organized gang
", and "
willful violence
" aggravated, "
in a meeting and with the use or threat of a weapon, in this case a knife
".
The Beauvais prosecutor's office then withdrew from the investigation in favor of the criminal center of Senlis.
An investigation is underway
“
Currently heard by an investigating judge with a view to their indictment
”, the four suspects will be “
presented in the evening to the judge of freedoms and detention
”, the prosecution having “
requested their placement in pre-trial detention
”, writes Loic Abrial.
Several of them were already known to the courts.
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The investigations carried out by the judicial police of Creil and the police station of Beauvais should make it possible "
to specify the reasons which led to these acts of extreme violence
", concludes the prosecutor.
The suspects face thirty years of criminal imprisonment.
According to a police source, the victim previously educated in Méru, a town between Paris and Beauvais, was kidnapped in the Saint-Jean district in Beauvais, which a strong rivalry opposes to Méru.
