“The young girl was sexually assaulted before being released,” confirms Michel Garrandaux, the public prosecutor of Poitiers, in Vienne.
Sunday, around 12:45 p.m., a 9-year-old child was kidnapped in the heart of a residential area of Villiers, a village of 900 inhabitants located about twenty kilometers north-west of Poitiers.
She would have been released by her attacker less than an hour later after being "raped", according to information from France 3 Nouvelle Aquitaine, which revealed the case.
The suspect fled and has been actively wanted ever since.
On Sunday afternoon, the Epervier plan was triggered in the department.
Nearly a hundred gendarmes were mobilized to carry out road checks.
Similar operations were carried out on Monday.
Several hundred gendarmes were also placed on alert in three departments: Vienne, Deux-Sèvres and Maine-et-Loire.
The investigation was entrusted to the Poitiers Research Section supported by investigators from the judicial police.
"The whole town is in shock"
According to our information, this CM1 student in Villiers was obviously going to buy bread at the village supermarket when she was kidnapped.
Neighbors of the family have reportedly heard screams.
The parents of the victim would then have quickly given the alert and contacted the gendarmerie.
The girl, who returned to the family home alone at 1.15 p.m., reportedly showed signs of blows to the face and immediately testified to sexual violence.
“The child ran home,” says Joël Doret, the mayor of Villiers who, Sunday, cut short a stay to return urgently to his village.
“Here, everyone knows each other… The whole town is in shock.
It is a family without history.
The municipality will be at his side, ”breathes the elected official affected by this tragedy.
According to the daily La Nouvelle République, the victim was approached by a man driving a gray Citroën C3.
Details that the Poitiers prosecutor's office does not confirm, extremely discreet on the course of the facts and the research system put in place.
The young girl and her relatives were taken to the Poitiers CHU.
A psychological support unit was set up as of Monday morning in his school.
“For staff and students alike.
It will remain in place as long as necessary, ”says the rectorate of the Poitiers academy.