Couple arrested after 'keeping woman prisoner' in garage for five years
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In Loire-Atlantique, a woman lived almost five years in captivity, forced to sleep in a garage in inhumane conditions. She managed to escape a few days ago before being hospitalized in a state of hypothermia. Two people were charged with kidnapping with torture and barbarism.
The French authorities are investigating a case of abduction and ill-treatment following the discovery of a woman who was allegedly locked up and subjected to torture for five years in the garage of a house in Saint-Molf, a small town near Saint-Nazaire, in France. The 45-year-old victim was rescued by the French police on 14 October and transferred to a hospital with hypothermia symptoms and a very weak state. According to the Public Prosecutor…
The victim, a 45-year-old woman, was forced to live for five years in the garden or a garage adjacent to the house where the two persons involved resided.
A 45-year-old woman, kidnapped and tortured for several years, managed to escape from a house in the Loire-Atlantique. Her torturers, aged 60 and 83, were charged. The neighbour who took refuge in the victim's home when she escaped delivers her testimony to TF1. - "We no longer saw her": what we know about the sequestration of a woman for 5 years by a couple in the Loire-Atlantique (Police, justice and other facts).


The victim had "disappeared from radars" in France. The prosecution announced on Wednesday the indictment of a 82-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman.
The nightmare took place in Saint-Molf, a small town on the peninsula of Guérande (Loire-Atlantique). According to reports from West France, the 45-year-old victim managed to escape on the evening of 14 October while one of her kidnappers was watching the television. Half naked and in shock, she struck at the window of neighbours to ask for help. Her story, first considered implausible by the police, was quickly confirmed by the investigation of…
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