Two men were indicted and imprisoned in Toulon after the complaint of a young woman claiming to have been the victim of a sting in a nightclub, announced on Monday the public prosecutor of Toulon, Samuel Finielz.
Syringes and injectable drugs were found in one of the two individuals.
The two men of Turkish nationality “both contest the facts”, added the public prosecutor of Toulon, confirming information from Var-Matin.
The investigation had been opened by the Sanary-sur-Mer police station after the complaint of a young woman, born in 1997. She claimed to have been the victim, on the night of June 10 to 11, of a prick in the elbow in a nightclub in Six-Fours-Les-Plages.
She had denounced two individuals.
The exploitation of video surveillance tapes of the nightclub "made it possible to identify the actions of two people in accordance with what the victim described", specified the prosecutor of Toulon.
Judicial police officers then carried out surveillance in the establishment, until they spotted one of the two suspects, arrested and placed in police custody on Saturday.
Four syringes, two needles and injectable ampoules found in a suspect
In the second suspect, arrested on Sunday thanks to his telephone exchanges with the first, the investigators found four syringes, two needles and injectable ampoules of a drug issued only on prescription, explained the representative of the prosecution, without specifying what it was. medication.
The suspect in whom these medical devices were found assured that they belonged to his wife, a nurse.
The latter, who works in a health establishment, had no reason to detain them at home, according to Samuel Finielz.
The Toulon public prosecutor's office requested the opening of a judicial investigation for violence having led to a temporary interruption of work (ITT) of less than 8 days with aggravating circumstances (use of a weapon, assembly and premeditation) and administration of harmful substances resulting in an ITT, facts for which the alleged perpetrators risk seven years in prison.
In a national context where many complaints have been filed by people claiming to be victims of injections, the Toulon prosecutor pointed out that the young woman from Six-Fours had suffered from discomfort “immediately after the events and in the week that followed. ".
Medical conditions confirmed by a medical examiner, "which nevertheless suggests that there was an administration of harmful substances", continued the prosecutor, specifying that "this qualification must however be confirmed by the results of the examinations toxicology”.
