If the young man is not registered in the register of perpetrators of sexual offenses, he is nevertheless known to have been implicated in acts likely to be qualified as an offense of a sexual nature.
Morgane, 13 year old schoolgirl missing November 25th in Pabu (Côtes-d’Armor) has been found alive Tuesday morning in a young workers' home in Coutances (Manche), announced the public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc, Nicolas Heitz. A 21-year-old man who sheltered the teenager was taken into custody, Mr. Heitz said in a statement.
“The missing child was able to be located at the beginning of the week, in Coutances” and was found Tuesday morning by the gendarmes from the Rennes research section, added Mr. Heitz. “She was in a young workers' home of this city […] Lto the person who hosted him, a 21-year-old native of Rennes, was immediately placed in police custody of arrest, kidnapping, sequestration of a minor under fifteen years of age”, stressed the prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc.
Strange request
Mardi, The Telegram revealed that the investigators were traced to him thanks to the testimony of a woman who lives in Charente-Maritime and who contacted them on Monday to make a suspicious report.
In a new article, the regional daily clarifies the scenario. The young man would have gone to the home of this lady in the La Rochelle area. Presenting himself as a friend of his son, he asked her if she or her son had a room to accommodate a teenage girl.. Disturbed by this stranger's request, the mother would have rejected the suspect before making the link with the young girl's wanted notice. And she would have called the authorities. From this exchange, investigators were able to identify the 21-year-old man.
Implicated in facts likely to be qualified as an offense of a sexual nature
According to information from our colleagues, the 21-year-old young man is not not registered in the register of perpetrators of sexual offenses but is nevertheless known to have been implicated in acts likely to be classified as offenses of a sexual nature.
Morgane “will be quickly examined by a doctor and will be heard by investigators”specifies Nicolas Heitz, who does not provide details on his state of health at this stage. The Côtes-d'Armor gendarmerie indicated on Facebook that the teenager is “healthy”. “Morgan is doing well physically” and has not yet given an explanation for her disappearance, a source close to the case told AFP, without being able to give any indication of the psychological state of the schoolgirl.
“Detailed” press briefing at 6 p.m.
The Saint-Brieuc prosecutor announced “a detailed press briefing” on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.
Last week, Mr. Heitz said he was considering “all tracks” to find the teenager, who seemed to be making excessive use of the social networks where she was entrée “in relation to older individuals”. “These people were all interviewed and their homes were searched” more “none of these hearings” had not allowed her to be located at that time, Nicolas Heitz emphasized during a press briefing.
A 21-year-old man, resident in Drôme, was notably identified as having created a Snapchat account for Morgane. Several images of child pornography not concerning Morgane were discovered there and the man was placed in police custody for these facts, by the competent public prosecutor's office, the magistrate said.
