Toulouse: indicted of a 22-year-old student accused of raping an acquaintance during an alcoholic evening
An 18-year-old student filed a complaint the day after an alcoholic evening. She explains that she was raped while she was in an advanced state of intoxication by one of the people who accompanied her on that night of celebration. The suspect was indicted for rape by surprise on Thursday.
The facts take place on the night of October 23 to 24 in Toulouse. An 18-year-old student recounts when she lodged a complaint the next day with the gendarmerie that she was raped several times while she was semi-conscious due to her state of intoxication.
According to her, during a very alcoholic evening with friends that ended in a nightclub, she was then accompanied by one of the members of her party group to an apartment where she was to spend the night. The victim explains that she was sleeping or dozing, in an advanced state of intoxication, when the person accompanying her would have taken advantage of the situation to impose several acts of penetration on her. The suspect is also a 22-year-old student living outside the Occitanie region. “After his placement in police custody by the gendarmerie in charge of the investigation, he was heard and then referred to the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office. He was presented this Thursday, October 28 to an examining magistrate with a view to his indictment for facts of rape by surprise “, specifies in a press release the prosecutor of the Republic of Toulouse, Samuel Vuelta-Simon.
Place under judicial control
The prosecution then requested that he be placed in detention, but the liberties and detention judge ordered his placement under judicial supervision. Investigations are continuing to shed light on the course of this alcoholic evening. “This type of fact is unfortunately recurrent in the Toulouse area, in particular in the hypercentre, after excessive festive consumption of drinks and / or narcotics. The victims are attacked either by one of the people of the group who accompany them in the evening. by a stranger who takes advantage of their condition to inflict the aggression “, wishes to underline the public prosecutor.