This 26-year-old man is said to have prostituted, kidnapped, tortured and robbed a 17-year-old girl at the end of 2019 before trying to dress up in Mali.
A 26-year-old young man suspected of having prostituted, kidnapped, tortured and robbed a 17-year-old girl at the end of 2019 requested, on September 1, her release before the chamber of the instruction of Versailles (Yvelines), we learn this Tuesday from the Versailles Court of Appeal, confirming information from the Parisian . His request was rejected and he was kept in pre-trial detention pending trial.
On October 31, 2019, the Nanterre police station received a call from a gendarmerie brigade in Seine-et-Marne. The soldiers explain that a young girl has just been hospitalized and suffers from multiple injuries, probably inflicted by her spouse.
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The latter would have kidnapped, beaten and even tortured her in a hotel room in Nanterre. In charge of the investigations and the hearing of the victim, the investigators of the departmental judicial police service (SDPJ), take note of the ordeal experienced by the teenager.
She recounts having been subjected to acts of torture by her “mac” and incidentally boyfriend, a certain “Bala”, in this apartment hotel, rue des Vignes. On October 30, Bala first tied his hands and feet before putting a rag in his mouth, according to The Parisian. He then allegedly hit her. By kicking, punching or even with the handle of a broom that he would have broken on his head.
Violence and threats
Worse, he allegedly cut her hair with a knife before placing her under the window railing and saying to her: “Jump or I’ll throw you into the void.” The beatings reportedly continued for hours, late into the night. It is finally the arrival of three friends which would have put an end to this outburst of violence, still according to the regional daily.
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In addition, Bala allegedly extorted 600 euros from the girl, money from her paid sexual activity. In the early morning, he would then have forced her to get into a taxi to an underground car park in Montfermeil, in Seine-Saint-Denis, to recover a vehicle. “That’s when he asks her if she wants to go to the hospital, says a source close to the case at Parisian. But the victim refuses.
The victim and his executioner finally go to a shopping center in Collégien (Seine-et-Marne), where the latter abandons her, not without having warned her that, if she dares to speak to the police, he will take it out. to his mother whose address he knows.
“Here everyone wants to hit me and calls me a snitch”
“Bala”, sentenced
Bala, father of two children and who lived at that time with his sister, is arrested in extremis on December 19, 2019 as he tries to flee France for Mali. He was arrested on an arrest warrant when he got off the plane in Bamako, then placed in pre-trial detention pending extradition. From his African jail, he still manages to contact the young girl on Snapchat and threatens to attack her mother in the hope that she withdraws her complaint.
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Two years later, on December 2, 2021, the defendant was extradited and handed over to the French authorities. On April 4, during his interrogation on the merits, the young man confirmed that he benefited from the young woman’s income. But he maintains that he was unaware that she was underage because she allegedly told him she was 19. He also disputes the facts of kidnapping, violence, the use of a knife to cut hair, death threats, theft of money and pressure.
Well known to the police, with a criminal record showing eight convictions for theft, concealment or even violence, the torturer is now complaining about his conditions of detention. “Here everyone wants to hit me and calls me a snitch”, he denounces, promising not to start again. Complaints that will not have been enough to convince the investigating chamber which decided to keep him behind bars before his judgment.
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