"
This type of kidnapping is happening more and more often...
", we whisper on the side of the authorities.
Two young individuals aged 18 and 23 claim to have been kidnapped and beaten in a city in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille, before escaping their captors on Thursday, Le Figaro learned from a police source this Friday, April 7, confirming information
from
BFMTV .
They would have first been kidnapped earlier in the day, before being taken to a garage in the Kalliste city, known for its violence and its squats.
To the investigators in charge of the investigations, the two victims explained that they had been beaten many times, with fists and butts, by a group of at least seven people.
One of the two youngsters was hospitalized with a head injury.
The mother of a victim had reported the disappearance of her son, according to our colleagues.
An investigation has been opened by the Marseille prosecutor's office.
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This event came days after a series of fatal shootings that killed three people in Marseille, including a 16-year-old boy.
The prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille, Dominique Laurens, had denounced at a press conference a “
logic of vendetta
” which reigned in the Marseille city, in particular in the middle of drug trafficking.