2024-02-02 18:30:20
At the end of January in the town of Saleilles, at a bus stop, the young girl escaped her attacker not only thanks to her courage, but also through the intervention of a witness.
A man has just been arrested this Thursday, February 1 by the Pyrénées-Orientales gendarmes for an attempted kidnapping of a minor who was waiting for her school bus to go to school.
The facts date back to January 24, 2024 in the early morning. Around 7:15 a.m., the time when the children head to school, an 11-year-old girl waits for her school bus to pick her up. We are in Saleilles. She was allegedly approached by a man in a car who offered to accompany her to her school. When the minor refused, he allegedly tried to force her to get into the vehicle while she continued to struggle. Witnessing the scene and “finding the situation strange”, a lady intervened and made the driver flee.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the Perpignan research brigade and the Cabestany gendarmerie brigade. During the investigations, significant resources were deployed and connections relating to similar facts were made. A few days later, the motorist was identified.
The suspect is a man born in 1984, already convicted of a traffic ticket. He was arrested this Thursday, placed in police custody and then presented to the prosecution. According to a press release from the Perpignan public prosecutor, Jean-David Cavaillé, a judicial investigation has been opened and there is an indictment for “attempted kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor”, “violence with ITT less than 8 days aggravated by three circumstances”, “sexual assault on a minor aged 15 by an adult with an age difference of at least 5 years”, and “attempted sexual assault. »
The person concerned was placed in detention.
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