Calais: three people indicted after the mutilations of a fifty-year-old

A man and two women were indicted on Wednesday evening in the case of the fifty-year-old found with his tongue and genitals mutilated on Monday in Calais, AFP learned on Thursday from the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor's office. A 21-year-old man was indicted for “acts of torture and barbarity leading to mutilation or permanent disability” and was placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the prosecutor's orders, according to Patrick Leleu, deputy prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer.

The young man, however, denies being the cause of the injuries, said Mr. Leleu. A knife was used to cut off the victim's tongue, a toe and the genitals, according to a police source interviewed by AFP on Tuesday. His penis showed traces of necrosis, according to the same source.

Two women prosecuted for failure to provide assistance

Two women, aged 37 and 65, were indicted for failure to assist a person in danger. They were placed under judicial supervision, again according to Mr. Leleu. The events occurred in a social housing building, in an apartment occupied by the sixty-year-old, according to neighbors interviewed Tuesday by AFP.

The occupant of the premises “was fragile” and “it was drinking dry” at home, said a neighbor wishing to remain anonymous, according to whom this person received unsavory people at her home. And the victim “regularly welcomed a certain number of people into his apartment,” Mr. Leleu added on Thursday. There is no family relationship between the three people indicted, nor between them and the victim, but they all saw each other, according to the magistrate.