Neighbours cast doubts on German wife allegedly held captive by husband in France

Record ID: 1736925

  • Title: Neighbours cast doubts on German wife allegedly held captive by husband in France
  • Date: 8th August 2023
  • Summary: FORBACH, FRANCE (AUGUST 8, 2023) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF STREET SIGNS VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF APARTMENT BUILDING OF GERMAN ARRESTED IN FRANCE ON SUSPICION OF HOLDING WIFE CAPTIVE AT HOME WINDOW WITH SHUTTERS ALMOST FULLY CLOSED (SOUNDBITE) (French) RESIDENT, JEAN-MARC MULLER, SAYING: "Something like this is incredible, for someone to be locked away in an apartment for 12 years, without calling for help, to call the police to say there's a problem, it's incredible, it's almost impossible, for something to happen like that, and I don't recall someone like that, I've never seen them, I don't know them." VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF WINDOWS OF BUILDING CARS DRIVING PAST
  • Embargoed: 22nd August 2023 09:47
  • Keywords: France woman
  • Location: FORBACH, FRANCE
  • City: FORBACH, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,Europe
  • Reuters ID: LVA001307208082023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Neighbours living near a German national arrested on suspicion of having tortured, raped, and imprisoned his wife at their home in Forbach, eastern France, cast doubts on the alleged incident on Tuesday (August 8).
    The wife told police she had been imprisoned since 2011, the local public prosecutor said on Monday (August 7).
    The 53-year-old woman, also German, was found semi-naked with her head shaved when police entered a bedroom in the apartment. She had used a phone in the residence to ring German police, who in turn contacted French police, prosecutor Olivier Glady told reporters.
    Police in Metz, who are conducting the investigation according to French media, declined to comment on the case and referred media inquiries to the prosecutor's office.
    Reuters was not immediately able to contact representatives for the man arrested.
    (Production: Timm Reichert, Max Schwarz, Yiming Woo)
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