Elderly Man Arrested for Child Abuse in Paris Suburb Parking Lot

It was 5 p.m. in this parking lot of the Valenton shopping mall, Rue de la Sablonnière, when Franck* and his cousin noticed the arrival of the old man’s vehicle, which parked in the back. In the back seat were the septuagenarian and the little girl, reports Le Parisien.

The absence of a driver at the wheel drew the attention of the two witnesses to the scene. When they tried to understand, they realized the reality: "The two were in the back, in really weird situations. The old man was leaning over the little girl, as if he wanted to kiss her. We quickly understood what was happening."

To keep evidence of the situation in order to later confront the old man with the police, Franck asked his cousin to film the scene with his smartphone. Shortly afterwards, pushing his curiosity further, he got out of his car and went to open the back door of the parked driver nearby," the newspaper continues. That’s when the little girl burst out as if she expected to be rescued.

"The little girl came out right away to snuggle up to me, she was totally panicked," Franck recalls. "She pulled up her pants, and the old man too, still in the car," he continues. According to the testimony of the little girl, the old man "tried every day to get her to get into his car to do things to her."

Arrested by the anti-crime brigade, the septuagenarian, of Maghrebi origin, was taken into custody at the Villeneuve-Saint-Georges police station, while the little girl was taken care of by the territorial brigade, who took care to contact her parents.

* the first name has been changed.