Toulouse: suspected of sexual assault and rape, a medical student indicted and placed in
A 23-year-old medical student was taken into custody on Tuesday. At the end of his hearing, he was referred to the Toulouse prosecutor’s office and then indicted for rape and sexual assault. He was then remanded in custody.
The facts are serious but the person concerned denies his involvement. On Tuesday, a young medical student from the faculty of Toulouse was taken into custody at the Toulouse central police station. After 24 hours in police custody, this 23-year-old student, son of a Toulouse doctor, was referred to the Toulouse prosecutor’s office. He was charged with rape and sexual assault. The prosecution had requested his placement in pre-trial detention. Requisitions followed by the judge of freedoms and detention who, in view of the gravity of the facts, decided to send this young man to prison. A judicial investigation was opened in parallel for rape and sexual assault. The investigations assigned to the right bank urban security police officers will therefore continue.
The 23-year-old is accused by several victims of rape and sexual assault. According to the first elements of a sensitive investigation, these alleged rapes and attacks took place during student parties between 2017 and 2021. The victims, eight in number, did not all file a complaint. They would be in their twenties, among them former girlfriends of the suspect.