Police reject kidnapping of woman who claims to have been held captive by husband for 12 years

After the judicial police of Metz heard all the accusations against her husband, French prosecutor Olivier Glady said at a press conference on Tuesday that the exposed “kidnapping situation” is a “non-existent reality.”

The man accused of torture, aggravated rape and kidnapping was this Monday detained authorities, but now he is free.

A police investigation confirmed that the woman was suffering from alopecia, a condition that causes hair loss, which explains the shaved head. The woman was “stricken by inflammatory pathologies of the rheumatological type”, accompanied by an “allergy”, which did not allow her to move for several months due to an exacerbation of the disease.

Despite the fact that her husband blamed her health, the German woman had access to a TV, computer and telephone. According to the prosecutor, the husband took care of his wife and her hygiene every day.

As for the lack of medical care for the patient, the husband justified the decision by the fact that the spouses was not registered with the French social security system and that for this reason he was afraid of the “related costs”. Also the man pointed to the language barrier and “administrative restrictions”.

53 year old German. who has been missing since 2011 he found locked in a room, naked, with shaved hair and a few broken bonesthis Monday, by the French police, in the city of Forbach. The woman told the authorities that she had been held captive by her husband for 12 years.