Overview
- The Besançon prosecutor confirmed Friday that a 19-year-old was formally indicted Thursday and placed in pretrial detention on charges of kidnapping, sequestration and aggravated assault.
- Walkers found the 21-year-old tied up and badly hurt in a wood near Besançon on Tuesday, with a fractured tibia, head trauma, heavy bruising and dangerously high body temperature.
- The victim had been on semi-liberty and vanished on March 14 after escaping custody, then was hospitalized for his injuries and returned to prison once stabilized.
- He told police he was beaten, locked in a car trunk and abandoned, and he named three men, but only one has been charged while two others were released during the inquiry.
- In France, a mise en examen is a formal judicial indictment that allows deeper investigation, and détention provisoire means the suspect remains in jail while the judge pursues the case.