Toulouse. Alcoholic evening: student accused of surprise rape of 18-year-old girl
Through Laurent Derne
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She participated in a evening with a group of friends, in nightclubs, in Toulouse and consumed alcohol probably in high doses. This is what prompted a member of the group to take her home to the apartment where she was to spend the night.
While she was unconscious
A young woman of 18, living outside Toulouse, filed a rape complaint Sunday, October 24, 2021, just hours after that evening.
“The rape would have occurred while the victim was sleeping or drowsy. Her companion took advantage of the fact that she was in an advanced state of alcoholism with loss of consciousness, to impose several acts of penetration on her …”
The mis en cause, a young 22 year old man who had also been drinking that evening, was taken into police custody at the national gendarmerie. At the end of his hearings, he was referred to the prosecution and then indicted for “violates by surprise” by an investigating judge, this Thursday, October 28.
He faces 15 years in prison
The Toulouse public prosecutor’s office had requested his detention. The judge of freedoms finally let him free under judicial control.
“This type of facts is unfortunately recurring on the Toulouse resort, in particular in the hypercentre, after excessive festive consumption of drinks and / or narcotics, underlines the prosecutor. The victims are attacked either by one of the people of the group accompanying them, or by a stranger who takes advantage of their condition to inflict the aggression ”.
The investigation is now continuing on the basis of a rogatory commission. The implicated incurs up to 15 years of imprisonment criminal.
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