a complaint filed for “confinement of a child on Halloween night

A Halloween outing that goes wrong. An 8-year-old child was allegedly briefly kidnapped in a home in Granges-Aumontzey in the Vosges on Tuesday, October 31, the Epinal public prosecutor announced to AFP, confirming information from Vosges Morning. A complaint was filed and an investigation was opened for “violence against minors”, he said. The accused, already known to the courts, will be “heard quickly about the facts”added Frédéric Nahon.

The child was going door to door to collect treats, when he was pulled inside a house, whose occupant allegedly locked the door, according to the local newspaper. “T‘Are you scared now?’, the man would have said, reports the daily. His grandmother, who accompanied the child, then allowed him to leave the house by forcing the door.