Frédéric Michel (in Toulon) // Photo credit: Europe 1
In Toulon, a man is in police custody this Wednesday morning. He is suspected of having attempted to kidnap a little girl Monday morning near her primary school in La Garde, near Toulon. A 10-year-old child who was on a low wall waiting for classes to enter. An employee scared the individual away. The alleged attacker is known to the police. Convicted several times, notably for sexual assault on adults, he had just been released from prison in December.
“The parents I met, they were really anxious. They were scared.” She came to pick up her daughter in front of the school. This parents’ delegate was quickly informed of the attempted kidnapping of a 10-year-old classmate of her child at the Paul Langevin school, near Toulon.
“The little one, when the attacker started to take her away, she didn’t even have the strength to scream. Fortunately, there was a mother. She works at school and the one by grace who she was there, in advance and she knew how to intervene. In the same morning, he followed another little girl,” adds the parents’ delegate.
“This kind of person should not be released”
A man with a long criminal record, convicted of sexual assault on adult women. He had just been released from prison. “This kind of person should not be released. We live in such a quiet and pleasant neighborhood. I suppose everyone is stunned and shocked. We just have to remain lucid and aware that we don’t see all these things until we see them. ‘on the 8 p.m. news. It could happen at any time and in any place. It’s not that it worries me, it’s that everyone must pay attention to their children, be aware that It can happen. The proof,” explains a stunned parent.
At the end of his police custody this morning, the attacker, of Reunion origin and born in 1995, presumed to be the little girl, should be presented to a judge and probably incarcerated.