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The public prosecutor of Sarreguemines announced that the situation of kidnapping denounced was a “non-existent reality”. The alleged victim would be affected by several pathologies.
The woman claiming to have been sequestered by her husband in Forbach, in Moselle, maintains her accusations, revealed the public prosecutor of Sarreguemines, Olivier Glady, during a press conference this Tuesday, August 8. However, he dismissed the sequestration thesis, describing a situation “non-existent“. The husband’s custody was lifted late Tuesday evening.
“The victim was heard at length by the services of the criminal brigade of the Metz judicial police“Said Olivier Glady this Tuesday at the end of the afternoon, for whom the”sequestration situation“denounced is a”non-existent reality“. The investigations revealed that the woman, who would be “affected by inflammatory pathologies such as rheumatology» accompanied by «allergies“, could not move for several months due to a worsening of his state of health. She would hold her husband responsible for her state of health, while she also suffers from alopecia. She had access to a television, a computer and a telephone, and her husband took care of her body wash, again according to Olivier Glady.
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“Social Disarray”
“No blood splatter or broken boneswere discovered in the woman, said the public prosecutor. “No gynecological trace allows to suspect coerced and even consented sexual intercourse“, he also said. A psychiatric expertise of the woman is in progress.
The couple, married since 2001,revolves around the illness situation of Mrs.“, according to the prosecutor. A disease that was not covered: the couple is not registered with the Primary Health Insurance Fund (Cpam). The husband justified this lack of medical follow-up by a fear “of the cost generated», the language barrier, the couple not being French-speaking, and «administrative embarrassments“. “Penal dread moved away to reveal social disarray“, according to the prosecutor.
The woman had been discovered Monday morning by the police, emaciated and half-naked, in an apartment in the center of Forbach which she occupied with her husband. She had called the night beforea German association for the protection of victims who called the police in Wiesbaden“, had indicated to AFP the latter who then contacted the French police. On Monday, the first elements from police sources suggested a scenario of kidnapping with violence, but during a press briefing, Olivier Glady had been very cautious, already mentioning “unsatisfactory disease management conditions“. He had also denied several elements, such as the existence in the apartment of a torture bench or a book of abuse. Same thing with the screened room where she was found: according to the prosecutor, the screen was obviously used “to preventthe dozen cats that lived in the couple’s apartment to escape.