Early in the morning, at departure time for school, an 11-year-old girl escaped an attempted kidnapping last week while she was waiting for the bus.
The one who allegedly tried to get her into his car was indicted on Friday in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales).
On January 24, around 7:15 a.m., in Saleilles, a few kilometers southeast of Perpignan, a little girl was waiting at the bus stop, when a man in a car stopped and approached her.
Can he take her instead of leaving her waiting?
The little girl refuses.
So the man tries to force her while she struggles.
It was there, according to a press release from the Perpignan public prosecutor, Jean-David Cavaillé, that a woman “having found the situation strange” managed to scare the individual away.
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Alerted, the gendarmes of the Perpignan research brigade and the Cabestany gendarmerie brigade deployed “significant resources” to identify this worrying man.
Connections are even “established with similar facts”, indicates the Perpignan public prosecutor’s office without further details.
The investigation then made it possible to lay hands on Thursday on a man born in 1984. The suspect is indicted for arrest, kidnapping of a minor aged 15, violence with ITT less than 8 days aggravated by three circumstances, sexual assault on minor of 15 years by adult with age difference of at least 5 years and attempted sexual assault.
He is known to the courts for a conviction linked to a traffic ticket.
The prosecutor requested his placement in pre-trial detention.