1:01 p.m. – The chamber rejected the prosecution’s appeal
The investigating chamber rejected the prosecution’s appeal. “Jeannot” is kept under judicial control. Like the four other suspects, “Jeannot” is indicted for “organized kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor” and “criminal association” but remains under judicial control. According to the Nancy prosecutor, François Perain, he admitted having led his accomplices to the Vosges but did not participate in the kidnapping.
12 h 45.- The Public Prosecutor’s Office requests the detention of “Jeannot”
Logically, the prosecution requested the detention of Jeannot, the only kidnapper alleged not to be imprisoned. The defense is arguing. The rest will go very quickly since the prosecution will withdraw to deliberate and announce its decision in the wake.
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11 h 10.- One of the alleged perpetrators in front of the Nancy investigation chamber
Indicted this Sunday like four other people by an investigating judge of the JIRS of Nancy in the Mia case, for “criminal association” and “kidnapping of a minor in an organized gang”, Jean-Luc W., known as the pseudo “Jeannot” the only one to have been placed under judicial control, has just arrived at the Nancy Court of Appeal, accompanied by his two lawyers, Me Frédéric Berna and Me Élodie Lambert, to appear before the chamber of the ‘instruction.
The latter is due to examine this morning the appeal made by the prosecution regarding this judicial review. A hearing held behind closed doors.
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He would have led the kidnappers in the Vosges
“Jeannot” is the only alleged kidnapper not to be imprisoned but placed under judicial control. Originally from the Paris region, the 60-year-old man led his accomplices to the Vosges but did not participate in the kidnapping.
Mia was abducted on April 17, 2021, at the request of her mother, by three men. The mother and daughter were found five days later in an abandoned factory in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland. For the public prosecutor of Nancy, François Pérain, the alleged perpetrators of the kidnapping conceived the kidnapping “as a military-type operation” carried out “in a determined manner”.
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