A man was charged on Monday with the attempted murder of a 15-year-old minor and remanded in custody after a seven-year-old child he was caring for was found seriously injured on Friday, his head in a bag Choisy-le-Roi, in a Parisian Located on the outskirts, pointed out the Créteil public prosecutor’s office.
The public prosecutor’s office initiated a judicial investigation on Monday morning and requested the detention of the 29-year-old suspect, the child’s guardian: During his interrogation, the man told the police that he had “harmed” him.
“In front of the police, the defendant stuck to his original statements without elaborating on his actions,” the prosecution added.
According to the same source, the child was found by local residents on Friday evening “between two cars,” “with his head stuck in a plastic bag” and with “traces of blows and strangleholds.”
Since he was hospitalized in a critical condition, his vital prognosis was at risk on Saturday evening. The public prosecutor’s office was unable to provide any further information on his state of health on Monday.
The victim’s parents, who confirmed to investigators that they had entrusted their child to the defendant “regularly and with full trust for three years,” called the emergency police on Friday evening to report his disappearance.
The man presented himself at the police station on Friday. He was “unknown in the police files, but was involved in a case opened in Paris in June 2022 for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old minor,” the public prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.
The investigation was entrusted to the Paris Youth Brigade.