in a bus, sexual assault and attempted theft on a minor
Thursday evening in Toulouse, a 17-year-old girl who is in a bus was the victim of a sexual assault and then of an attempted theft of her cell phone. The 36-year-old suspect has been taken into police custody.
The facts occurred Thursday at the end of the evening at the bus station of Basso Cambo, in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). It was not yet 10 p.m. and a 17-year-old girl is in a practically deserted bus. La Dépêche du Midi reports that a man, who had obviously more drunk than reason, chose to sit right next to the passenger. He then rubbed herself against her, and that was just the start of his touching.
The bus passenger dodges a touch, we try to steal her phone
The guy began to touch the thighs of the teenager, before wanting to do the same with the crotch of the latter. The passenger managed to avoid this contact by struggling. And if, at that time, the teenager had a priori nothing more to fear in terms of physical integrity, her attacker would however have tried to steal her cell phone in the process.
The suspect to the security guards
The screams of the victim alerted the bus driver, who in turn warned the security agents of the Tisséo network. The bus was stopped, and the arrival of officers obviously did not calm the suspect. Beer in hand, the latter thus showed aggressive behavior. It was necessary to immobilize it on the ground to control it, and a rescue police crew to have taken over. The respondent, aged 36, was then taken into police custody.