a medical student and son of a surgeon accused of rape after two complaints filed in Toulouse
EXCLUDED FRANCE 3 OCCITANIE. Justice must indict, Wednesday January 18, 2023, for rape, sexual assault in a state of intoxication, a student of the faculty of medicine of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). Two victims have filed a complaint in a file where little information leaks out.
The charges are very serious. However, they have been passed over in silence since the beginning of 2023, circulating exclusively within a small circle. Indeed, only a few people within theUniversity of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier were taken into confidence. But the case has just experienced a boost.
According to our information, obtained in partnership with our colleagues from 100% Radioa student from the Faculty of Medicine of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) has been in police custody since Tuesday January 17, 2023. This son of a Toulouse surgeon – also a teacher at the faculty of medicine – is accused of rape. two victims, people aged 22 to 23, filed a complaint with the courts for facts that allegedly took place “between 2017 and 2021″, explains a source close to the investigation. Facts disputed by the respondent.
Wednesday, January 18, the young man should be indicted in the context of the opening of a judicial investigation for facts of rape, sexual assault while intoxicated. The Designated Inquiry to the unit of knowledge to the people of the Urban security must make it possible to know if other victims are concerned by this affair.
The information on this file does not filter. The name of the aggressor, for example, remains unknown for the time being.
Contacted, the presidency of the University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier and the faculty of medicine do not react to this information. They merely state that they were made aware of this matter, but not through their dedicated internal structures, in this case its listening and information unit.
According to a recent survey by the National Association of Medical Students of France (ANEMF), 32% of medical students have experienced gender or sexual harassment and 15% have already been sexually assaulted. In college, 93% of sexual assaults are perpetrated by students. Most often, on the occasion of events such as weekends, parties or galas.
The medical student community is known for its excesses within certain fraternities such as La Faluche, between sex, alcohol and drugs.
When publishing its report, the student association claimed to want to break this “persistent silence which accentuates the malaise of medical students“.
The prosecution specifies that the incriminated events did not take place during the evening of La Faluche, “but in the context of student parties” and “some victims are former girlfriends of the respondent”. The prosecution, which confirms the indictment, adds again that the person concerned “does not recognize the alleged facts: 4 rapes and 2 sexual assaults.