A couple, suspected of having kidnapped and forced three women into prostitution, in an apartment in downtown Montpellier (Hérault), was arrested by the police on Thursday morning, the Montpellier prosecutor’s office told 20 minutes. The three young women were released. Around 3 o’clock this morning, one of them had contacted the police station, calling the 17th, indicating “that she had just fled from an apartment where she was being held against her will with two other people”. She was only allowed to leave the apartment “for twenty minutes a day to walk a dog”.
According to this young woman, they were forced by this couple, whose man was carrying a weapon, to prostitute themselves. For several days, continues the Montpellier prosecutor’s office, they also had to “change cities regularly”. At 6 a.m. on Thursday morning, this couple was arrested in the apartment indicated by the victim, in which the other two people were also. An automatic pistol, cash and narcotics were seized at the scene. An investigation has been opened. She was entrusted to the Montpellier Judicial Police.