A 14-year-old girl was found dead in Lot-et-Garonne, after having disappeared on Friday while walking out of his college in Tonneins, report several sources of the file. This disappearance had been reported by his mother and the track of the abduction by a motorist was confirmed thanks to video surveillance. A 31-year-old man arrested in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) “quickly” confessed to the murder before indicating where the victim’s body was, confirmed this Saturday the public prosecutor.
Faced with the unexplained absence of her daughter on Friday, the mother reports to the gendarmes the worrying disappearance of the schoolgirl around 6:45 p.m. An operational device was immediately engaged to search for and try to find the 14-year-old girl.
The operation of the video protection system of the city of Tonneins, which has 28 cameras will make it possible “to first identify a vehicle, continues the prosecutor, who will attract the particular attention of the investigators”, indicates Olivier Naboulet, prosecutor of the Republic of Agen during a press conference this Saturday at 5 p.m.
Around 10 p.m., the investigators observe on the images the teenager walking at 1 p.m. on the sidewalk of a low-traffic street. It disappears from the screens and a single vehicle is then observable circulating in this lane of Tonneins, a town located about fifty kilometers north-west of Agen. The young girl got into – or was forced to get into – this car. The investigators consult their files and identify the owner of this suspicious vehicle.
Sentenced for sexual assault in 2006
The investigations of the gendarmes thus make it possible to go back to an individual of French nationality, aged 31, temporary and identified as living in the sector. At 10:45 p.m., the gendarmes intervened at the suspect’s home in Marmande, who told them “very quickly : i know why you are here “, continues the prosecutor. He was then placed in police custody for “kidnapping and forcible confinement”.
According to our information, this man, who did not know the schoolgirl, confessed to investigators that he had kidnapped and strangled the young girl after raping her – an element that the prosecution has not yet confirmed – then getting rid of the body. Statements made in police custody that the investigation will obviously have to confirm, in particular with the autopsy of the young victim.
Olivier Naboulet confirms this Saturday that the suspect “was prosecuted when he was a minor for acts of sexual assault. He himself was 15 years old when he was prosecuted and found guilty for these acts on a minor, committed in 2006″, to a sentence of fifteen days’ imprisonment “which had been fully accompanied by a suspended sentence with suspension. test for a period of two years. The prosecutor specifies that the man “was not registered in the file of sex offenders” and “was not subject to a control measure”. “Since 2011, the person had not been talked about, no mention in the criminal record,” he continued.
The device deployed Friday evening led the investigators to discover the body of the young victim “shortly before midnight, in an abandoned house”, in the town of Birac-sur-Trec confirms the prosecution, a few kilometers from Tonneins. The association for the defense and protection of children La Mouette went to the bedside of his relatives to spend the night, reports Southwest. The daily also indicates that the parents of the young victim, who is the eldest of three siblings, of Spanish origin and residing in Tonneins, were hospitalized in shock.