A 26-year-old man was indicted on Tuesday for “kidnapping and forcible confinement without voluntary release, robbery with a weapon and aggravated violence” after the kidnapping on Sunday of a female taxi driver.
The attacker was placed in pre-trial detention for these acts “committed in a state of legal recidivism”, according to the public prosecutor of Blois, Frédéric Chevallier.
Another taxi driver gives the alert
The 57-year-old driver picked up at the Tours SNCF station on Sunday, around 11 a.m., this man who asked to go to the Château de Chambord.
When they reached their destination, the passenger sprayed her with tear gas before taking her out of the vehicle, hitting her and placing her in the trunk of the car. The man then takes the wheel to Blois where, at a service station, various clues, including traces of blood on the rear hatch and blows from the trunk, attract the attention of another taxi driver. who alerts the police.
The woman was released shortly after 2 p.m. and the man arrested.
Released from prison 6 months ago
Originally from the Paris region, the attacker, released from prison six months ago and convicted on various occasions for acts mainly of theft and aggravated violence, was “medically monitored”, according to the prosecution, “having to take a neuroleptic, antipsychotic , which he hadn’t taken for some time.
Declaring himself homeless and living on the RSA, the man claimed to have “committed these acts because he ‘needed money'”, according to the press release from the prosecutor.