already targeted by 10 complaints of sexual harassment, a police officer again arrested
A trainer at the Toulouse police academy, already targeted by ten complaints of sexual harassment, was again arrested on Monday for similar facts. He is accused of having threatened a young woman in the street with the rapist.
He is a man in the grip of “repeated sexual urges”, according to his own confession, who was arrested and placed in police custody on Monday in Toulouse, informed BFMTV.com from a police source, as revealed The Dispatch. In the heart of the city, at the end of the afternoon, an individual in his car follows a young woman for several minutes to her home. As he walks past her, he insults her and threatens to rape her.
On the advice of her boyfriend, the young woman stays in her vehicle and follows the stranger in her turn. Arrived at an address in the south of the city, she communicates it to her companion who goes there and grabs the suspect while alerting the police.
A team from the BST (Specialized Field Brigade) arrives on the scene around 6:30 p.m. and discovers that the individual in question is a civil servant, trainer at the National Police School in Toulouse. The man recognizes the facts, he specifies that he has “repeated sexual urges” and that he has been on sick leave for several months.
The young woman he sued filed a complaint against him for sexual harassment and an investigation was opened, confirmed to BFMTV.com the Toulouse prosecutor’s office, adding that the suspect’s custody will be extended this Tuesday evening.
Investigation opened since April
The man is already well known to the justice services. He is already the subject of ten complaints of sexual harassment and has been the subject of an investigation since the spring of 2022. On April 5, while he is still in office, students in training at the Toulouse police academy complain about his behavior. The head brigadier is accused of having made remarks with a sexual connotation to nine students who decide to file a complaint for sexual harassment.
They are joined in the procedure by a tenth concerned, a police officer who claims that this same colleague has already had similar behavior in the past, during a telephone call.
In parallel with the judicial inquiry, investigations were opened by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) in order to clarify the circumstances in which the facts took place.