A photo of his 19-year-old daughter, tied to the wheel of her car, a gag over her mouth, with a can of gasoline nearby. It is, reports The Independentthe worrying snapshot that a mother from Carcassonne (Aude) received via Messenger on the evening of Thursday February 8.
She of course immediately notified the police, who deployed a huge device to try to locate the kidnapped young girl. Concern rose a notch when the car was found charred in the night, near Castres, in Tarn. Fortunately, there was no body inside.
The car found burned
Information obtained about the young girl, who was rather fanciful, the investigation took another turn. That of a staging. The lead was the right one since the “victim” was found in perfect health, three days later, in Rodez, hidden in the apartment of his best friend.
The nightmare scenario was in fact aimed at harming the young woman’s ex-partner and avenging the violence he would have subjected her to. “For me, it was a cry for help. I did not think it was going to take this magnitude,” explained Monday before the Carcassonne criminal court where she was on trial with her friend in particular for “false denunciations leading to useless research”.
According to the regional daily, the imaginary victim was finally sentenced to five years of socio-judicial monitoring with compulsory treatment and a fine of 2,000 euros.