He was extradited to France on Friday from Chile. A 52-year-old man was indicted for child abuse, the Lons-le-Saunier public prosecutor's office confirmed this Sunday in Jura.
The man was placed in pre-trial detention and indicted for acts of rape, sexual assault and corruption against around ten minors in Franche-Comté between 2015 and 2023, confirmed to the AFP the public prosecutor of Lons-le-Saunier, Julie Fergane, confirming information from the newspaper The Republican East.
On the run in Chile
He is suspected of events which occurred while he lived in Tassenières, a village of around 400 inhabitants in the Jura. The man, of French nationality, fled in June 2023 to Chile, but an international arrest warrant, quickly distributed, made it possible to locate him in this Latin American country in March 2024, when he had already started to rebuild his life there.
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According to The Republican Eastquoting the defendant's lawyer whom AFP was unable to contact, the latter remained silent on Saturday before the investigating judge, but “he will explain himself later when he is summoned again by the investigating magistrate,” she declared to the regional daily.
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