By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 4 hours ago, Updated 4 hours ago
A man has been indicted with a warrant after a charge of rape of a minor. Sergey Novikov / stock.adobe.com
Suspected of the girl’s rape in June under a bridge in Nantes, the man, unknown to the police, was indicted and remanded in custody.
A 29-year-old man, suspected of raping a 12-year-old girl in June under a bridge in Nantes, has been indicted and remanded in custody, a police source said Thursday. On June 11,a 12-year-old girl reported being raped by an individual under a bridge in Nantes“, Said this police source, confirming information from the newspaper Ocean Press .
According Ocean Press, quoting an investigator, this minor, runaway, was alone at the level of the Willy Brandt bridge, when her presence was reported to the police by a witness leaving a nightclub, the day of the events around 5 am . “After very tedious research, a 29-year-old man was identified on a photo by the victim“Said the police source, adding that he was arrested on June 28 at his home.
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Unknown to police
During the search, the investigators madethe discovery of the clothes he was wearing during the facts and seen on the surveillance videos“, according to the same source. “His DNA matched the traces found on the victim. Auditioned several times, he recognized the facts“, notably “allegedly consensual sex with the victim“. The suspect assured investigators that the victim “would have told him to be 14 years oldwhen she was 12 years old.
This man was indicted and a warrant of committal was issued against him, according to the police source. Unknown to the police, he was nevertheless “known to the foreign service of the Loire-Atlantique prefectureadded the same source, who did not specify his nationality.
2023-07-06 19:10:24
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