Not only were they squatting in his home, but they were also torturing his landlord.
For several months, a man in his thirties suffered numerous abuses by people who illegally occupied his home in Nancy, in the Chiennerie district,
a police source told
Le Figaro , confirming information from
L'Est .
Republican
.
If the defendants were presented this Thursday, November 24 to the magistrates of the Nancy court, the case should not stop there: according to a police source, the criminals would have potentially used the squat to install their drug trafficking .
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Guillaume Errard's response
"Under control"
The home was squatted "
occasionally by several people, surely to traffic in narcotics
," a police source
told
Le Figaro .
The owner “
was intellectually limited but was not placed under guardianship
”, we are told.
It was a member of the victim's family who alerted the authorities, worrying about discovering bruises on the victim's body.
“
The victim was clearly under the influence, she lived under the terror of these individuals who entered and left his home as they pleased
,” reports a source familiar with the matter.
The acts of torture perpetrated on the young thirty-year-old were inspired by film scenes, according to this same source.
"
He sometimes had to bite the table with his teeth, sometimes he burned it with cigarettes or they drugged him
," she continues.
Drug traffic ?
A total of four individuals have been identified and three of them have been placed in police custody for “acts of torture and barbarism”,
Nancy public prosecutor François Perain told
Le Figaro .
One of the defendants is an adult and the other two are minors.
In addition, one of the executioners was in detention at the time of his arrest.
He had been incarcerated for shooting a gun at a nightclub.
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According to a source close to the case, the torturers also used the victim's accommodation to orchestrate drug trafficking, but the investigations are still ongoing.
“
Unfortunately, this is not the first time that the police have had to deal with a case of this type: the elderly, isolated or fragile people who live in these difficult neighborhoods repeatedly fall into this kind of trap.
The criminals then abuse them psychologically and physically
, ”slips
a police source to
Le Figaro .
"
The difficulty is to detect these cases, because, when they are surrounded, the victims live in fear of talking about them and, when they are isolated, they are unable to find a way to
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