The young girl, of Romanian nationality, had taken refuge “in tears” in a clinic in Grenoble, on the night of December 16 to 17, said prosecutor Eric Vaillant, confirming information from Dauphiné Libéré.
She told the establishment staff that she had escaped through the window of her uncle and aunt's apartment in Grenoble.
She stated that she had been held there for three days and raped several times by her cousin, while the latter's parents were present in the apartment.
According to her, her own parents wanted her to marry her cousin. The latter, accompanied by two of his brothers, came to kidnap her from the young girl's family home, in a camp in Cergy, in the Paris region.
She was then taken to the Grenoble apartment of the cousin's parents, according to the prosecutor's account.
Placed in police custody on December 18 and 19, the cousin, his two brothers, the uncle and aunt and the father of the minor, “ended up – at a minimum – recognizing the existence of a marriage plan“, indicated Mr. Vaillant.
The 23-year-old cousin was indicted and imprisoned for “rape of a 15-year-old minor by an adult with an age difference of at least 5 years”, kidnapping and sequestration.
The father of the minor, prosecuted for complicity in kidnapping and sequestration, was placed under judicial supervision, contrary to the requisitions of the public prosecutor's office which appealed. The victim's uncle and aunt were placed under assisted witness status, which the prosecution also appealed.
