The case is likely to cause a stir in the region.
A 42-year-old professional firefighter, working in the Territoire de Belfort, was indicted on Friday in an investigation into acts of sexual assault and rape committed on two minors under 15 in his family circle, according to various judicial sources.
According to France Bleu which revealed the information, the two victims were aged 7 to 9 at the time of the facts.
It was a report, made by their family circle, which enabled the procedure to be launched.
"The two victims, belonging to the family circle of the accused, are not the children of the couple", specifies the Prosecutor.
The firefighter "recognized the facts" and was placed in pre-trial detention, said the Public Prosecutor of Belfort in a statement on Saturday.
The investigation, entrusted to the Research Brigade of the Belfort gendarmerie, must now focus on determining whether there were other possible victims, in particular in the family and professional entourage of the firefighter, himself a father. of family.
The man was arrested and taken into police custody on Wednesday in Tignes, Savoy, before being transferred to the Territoire de Belfort, where he is from and where he works.
The firefighter's wife takes her own life
The already dramatic story has seen an even more tragic development this Saturday.
A woman died after being struck by a train on Saturday morning, around 7.40 am at a level crossing, in Valdoie (Territoire de Belfort).
Neighbors told the Republican East that they were woken up by loud horn noises.
The train would have tried to warn the victim for long moments without being able to avoid the tragedy.
"We heard the horns then a loud braking noise", tells a witness to the local daily, before referring to the violence of the shock.
An investigation was immediately entrusted to the departmental direction of public security of the Territory of Belfort, initially responsible for identifying the victim, who had no paper on her at the time of the tragedy.
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The investigation which quickly led to the wife of the firefighter implicated the day before.
The 34-year-old woman living in Vescemont (Territoire de Belfort) is said to have committed suicide.
The 34-year-old woman would not have supported the legal proceedings against her husband.
"This tragic event seems to have to be put in perspective of a procedure initially followed by the public prosecutor's office of Belfort and having led to the arrest, in Tignes, of a man of 42 years within the framework of an investigation relating to facts sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor and rape on a 15-year-old minor ”, explained the prosecution on the spot.