Pas-de-Calais: five people in police custody, including a minor, for mutilating a fifty-year-old

Five people, including a minor, were taken into police custody after the discovery on Monday evening, October 12, in Calais (Pas-de-Calais) of a man mutilated in the tongue and genitals, we learned from a police source and the prosecution. These police custody are linked to “suspicions of acts of torture and barbarity”, indicated Tuesday the Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor's office, specifying that the vital prognosis of the victim, a fifty-year-old man, was not engaged.

The 50-year-old was discovered after 9 p.m. in a home on an impoverished street in the Beaumarais district and hospitalized, a police source said. A knife had been used to cut off his tongue, a toe and his penis, which showed traces of necrosis, according to the same source.

Still according to the latter, among the people placed in police custody are the alleged perpetrator as well as the tenant of this apartment and two possible accomplices, including a 13-year-old minor who has run away. The events took place in a social housing building, in an apartment occupied by a sixty-year-old woman, according to neighbors interviewed by AFP.