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A 14-year-old kidnapped and raped teenager found thanks to Snapchat: a judicial investigation opened in Marseille

A 14-year-old girl managed to warn her mother that she was being held against her will by two men in an unidentified location. The police were able to find her thanks to the social network Snapchat.

A 14-year-old girl, kidnapped and raped, was found in Marseille by the gendarmes thanks to Snapchat this Saturday, January 15. Geolocation, activated on this social network, made it possible to recover the teenager in an apartment in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille.

Hosted in a foster family in Ardèche, the young girl had already run away on January 10. She had already tried several times to join her biological mother on the side of Lyon, recalls France Bleu Marseille. Her foster family drove her to her school but she did not attend her classes.

The gendarmes of Ardèche, alerted, carried out searches in vain to find her throughout the week. It will be necessary to wait until Friday, January 14, for the police to be contacted by the girl’s mother. They manage to get in touch with her through messages. She explains that she was “abducted, raped, beaten and possibly drugged during the night” without knowing where she was.

Two men aged 24 and 64

It is a young policewoman who has the idea of ​​using Snapchat to locate the young girl. Police officers from the Marseille ferry identify the apartment where the young girl is being held. After knocking on all the doors, the victim sends a confirmation message when he hears a knock on the door. “She did it perfectly and we were able to find the right accommodation like that,” said Rudy Manna, departmental secretary of the Alliance Police union, at the microphone of France Bleu Marseille.

It was a man who opened the door. They were two in the apartment aged 24 and 64. Known to the judicial services, they were arrested and placed in police custody. According to France Bleu, the two men dispute the facts of which they are accused. They claim they were unaware of the girl and that the “sex was consensual”.

A judicial investigation was opened by the Marseille prosecutor’s office for “kidnapping and rape of a minor under 15”.

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