The man in his twenties, placed in police custody, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, in a case of kidnapping, kidnapping and violence against the police, was placed in pre-trial detention, at the outcome of his referral, yesterday before the Avignon prosecutor’s office.

Shortly after 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 17 in the morning, the manager of a grocery store located on Avenue Monclar, unknown to the police, had been kidnapped and sequestered by several men, who had taken him away in a car at the time of the closing his shop. Fortunately, the 25-year-old victim had managed to escape his captors and gave the description of one of them.

Less than an hour later, a group of individuals had provided the attention of a police patrol in the Saint Chamand sector. At the time of the control that the police wanted to operate, an altercation broke out between the police and one of the individuals, the three others having fled. The agents are injured, one of them will also undergo several stitches after being bitten until the blood.

The identity of this violent individual, well known to the police, had then challenged the agents and for good reason: he was the one that the victim of the kidnapping, a little earlier in the night had designated. In police custody as before the magistrate before his imprisonment, the individual denied the facts.