A teenager has been apprehended. He was present at the flat where the child's body was discovered. He has a lengthy background.
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The residents of Rambervillers, in the Vosges, have only been talking about it since this morning: the finding of a 5-year-old girl's body in a bag in an apartment hundreds of metres from her family's house late yesterday afternoon. According to the mayor of the town, Jean-Pierre Michel, a young male "15 to 16 years old" was apprehended on the scene and placed in police custody. He was already charged with rape of a juvenile for events that occurred last year, according to the parquet floor of Épinal.
This is the primary suspect at the moment. "For three to four months, he had been hanging around the neighbourhood every day," Eric, 59, who lives immediately below, adds. "He came in to do his laundry and then left." The 50-year-old described the adolescent as a "troubled boy who turned on the music, sang" and, above important, "who talked to his bike: he said to him" remain there, don't move, I'll be back in 5 minutes ", sometimes he also insulted her". A odd behaviour reported by another neighbour, Florence, 53, located two doors away: "He was not clean," she simply summarises.
Almost everyone in Rambervillers, a 5,000-person community, has seen this lad pass by, still pedalling "on his grey bike." "This summer, he came from time to time in the small park [located less than a kilometre from where the girl's body was discovered, Ed], but we didn't want to hang out with him too much because we knew he wasn't too normal, that he had little problems, so we were afraid of him," recalls Lucas, 16.
Léa, 18, tells the same story: "He had fun making faces at us, giving us the middle fingers," recalls the young woman, who went to the same college as the young man's brother. suspicious. "He was already known for a story that had caused a lot of talk: he had tied another youngster to a tree in the forest behind," said this very young mother, who was originally from the area. Information validated by our Vosges-Matin colleagues and dating back to 2021.
According to the mayor of the town, the youngster apprehended by the gendarmes yesterday was known to the municipal police services "for facts related to sexual abuse." "He would have attracted young children to make inappropriate sexual gestures," the city councillor explains. Many locals mention the suspect's confinement in a specialised institution owing to psychiatric issues.
According to Jean-Pierre Michel, he would have returned "a few weeks ago" to the community. A murder inquiry has begun.
Source: LePoint