Four men aged 20 to 28 were arrested and indicted, suspected of having kidnapped, kidnapped and beaten another man in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne), said on Friday, Laon prosecutor.
The facts date back to January 7, and the victim died three days later “from a trauma” cranio-facial “consecutive to violence,” said prosecutor Guillaume Donnadieu, confirming information from the regional daily ” Union”.
The “privileged hypothesis” of the mobile of the attackers is a “context of debt relating to narcotics”, he added, adding that this remained to be confirmed later on investigations.
-The four suspects were arrested and placed in police custody on January 10, then indicted on the 13th for “kidnapping, arrest, sequestration followed by death, and for one of them aggravated voluntary violence by premeditation and the Meeting, ”added Guillaume Donnadieu.
One of the respondents “is a parent of the victim”, and two of them had legal history, according to the prosecutor. All were placed in pre -trial detention.
