Le Figaro Bordeaux
Twelve teenagers, aged 13 to 17, were taken into custody on Tuesday by the Gironde gendarmerie.
At issue: ambushes orchestrated in the Arcachon basin to extort their victims, five in number.
The young delinquents had practiced their procedure.
Conversing with their target on the dating site coco.gg while posing as a young woman of 15 years old, eager for carnal relations, they then arranged a physical meeting with her.
There, the suitor found himself facing the gang.
Insults, beatings, racketeering, damage to his vehicle... Nothing was spared to their prey whose teenagers also filmed the attack to broadcast it live on Snapchat.
Among the victims, a 38-year-old man, caught in this vice in Audenge, on November 18, 2023. According to our sources, he managed to flee and take refuge with his sister-in-law.
However, he was prescribed six days of ITT.
Another victim had obtained ten.
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Gang delinquency
The investigations, carried out by the Arcachon research brigade, made it possible to bring 9 of these teenagers before the Bordeaux public prosecutor's office on Thursday.
The Public Prosecutor's Office had requested judicial controls or educational measures, which were granted by the juvenile judge, pending their trial on May 21.
They will have to answer for counts of extortion with hidden faces, aggravated violence, video attacks and serious damage to other people's equipment.
As for the three other remaining adolescents: the first was summoned by a judicial police officer, the second was the subject of criminal compensation and the last benefited from a dismissal at the end of his custody. view.
None of these twelve teenagers was previously known to the justice system.