On September 11, in Montluçon, a young man found on a public road tells a story that sends shivers down your spine. He claims to have been kidnapped by two women he knew of him and to have suffered violence. These would land at his home. One of them immediately grabbed and threw away his phone. He would then be beaten with a table leg and then, with his hands tied, his head immersed in a bucket of water.
Again according to his testimony, he was then taken by force, with the complicity of a man, to one of his alleged torturers, the scene of a second scene of violence. Forced to undress in a bathtub, he would be attacked with a barbell, cut with a knife or even burned with a cigarette.
A messy apartment …
An extreme violence that would have as its context a settling of scores and that the first elements of the investigation seem to attest. The medical examination to which the alleged victim was subjected reports a “lesional and traumatic combination compatible with the declarations. At her house, the police discovered a big mess, a broken phone …
Two individuals suspected of torturing a 30-year-old man in an apartment in Riom (Puy-de-Dôme)
The two suspects were arrested. One of them, indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, on Tuesday asked for his release in front of the investigative chamber of the Riom Court of Appeal. The young woman, 29, denies that she is the perpetrator of the violence.
“I’m not responsible for anything,” he proclaims. “I’ve never hit anyone in my life. “For me Bertrand Chautard, his lawyer” what is described as acts of barbarism are not established by the procedure or by the medical certificates.
A background?
Pascale Reitzel, Attorney General, instead evokes facts “of incredible gravity”. And he remembers that Marine L. has already committed violence against the young man. The investigation chamber, in compliance with her requisitions, held her in detention.
Olivier Choruszko
