The 7-year-old child was found on Friday November 3 on the public highway in Choisy-le-Roi, in Val-de-Marne.
At the end of the custody of the main suspect, accused of “attempted homicide of a 15-year-old minor” in Val-de-Marne, the latter is referred Sunday, November 5 to the Créteil public prosecutor’s office, franceinfo learned via the deputy prosecutor. He will be presented Monday morning to an investigating magistrate. The public prosecutor’s office specifies that “the heads of the opening of the judicial information will be communicated on Monday“.
The police custody of the 29-year-old man, the main suspect in this case, was extended by 24 hours on Saturday evening. The man was looking after a 7-year-old child, discovered on Friday November 3 on the public highway with a plastic bag tied around his head in Choisy-le-Roi.
The accused presents himself as a parental assistant
According to the latest elements of the investigation, communicated by the prosecution on Saturday, the individual presents himself as a “parental assistant, under the status of self-entrepreneur“. He is domiciled in Val-de-Marne and is “unknown font files“However, it was “implicated in a procedure opened in Paris for sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor in June 2022“, specifies the prosecution. The procedure was “dismissed for lack of infringement“.
The investigation into the events that occurred in Val-de-Marne continues. The public prosecutor explains that if for the moment “the elements do not currently establish the commission of acts of a sexual nature, this hypothesis remains open in the conduct of the investigations“.”A decision on the direction of the procedure will be taken at the end of police custody“, concludes the prosecutor.
Friday, November 3, the suspect presented himself at the Choisy-le-Roi police station to say that he had just “to hurt“to a child in his care. The man then clarified”that he had strangled her” before showing the photo of a little boy and giving the address where he had left the body. The man, “who showed signs of alcoholism“, was then taken into custody for “attempted homicide of a 15-year-old minor“.
The parents “regularly entrusted their child to him”
On site, the police discovered the victim.on a public road, between two cars“The child’s head.”was wrapped in a plastic bag“. Of the “traces of beatings and strangulation“were also noted. The child was treated by emergency services and taken to hospital. His vital prognosis was “always committed“Saturday evening, according to the prosecution who did not provide any news of the child’s state of health this Sunday evening.
According to the investigation, the police managed to identify the victim thanks to a call made in the evening by “parents of a 7 year old boy“The latter reported the disappearance.”of their son and his babysitter” upon returning to their home, located at “more than 3km from the victim’s place of discovery“. The parents “shocked“also confirmed”that they had regularly entrusted their child to the accused for three years, with complete confidence“.
The investigation was entrusted to the minor protection brigade, a Paris judicial police department, also competent in Val-de-Marne.