According to information from the Rennes prosecutor’s office, a man was taken into custody on Thursday, June 27. He is suspected of having threatened a woman near the Rennes train station and raping her after stealing money from her. The man will be brought before the prosecutor’s office. He is unfavorably known to the courts.
According to a press release from the Prosecutor in Rennes, Philippe Astruc, a man from Mayotte and aged 23, was placed in police custody.
According to the facts specified by the prosecution, “on June 27 around 5:20 a.m., a young woman who was returning from dropping someone off at the station got back into her vehicle. At that time, a young man, born in 2001 in Mayotte, entered her vehicle, threatened her and initially forced her to withdraw a sum of money from the ATM.”
But the man will take the vehicle again with his victim to head outside Rennes.
According to the prosecution, the man will “force her to have sexual relations before returning to the vehicle in Rennes where he dropped her off before leaving with the victim’s vehicle.
A man known to the judicial system
Philippe AstrucPublic Prosecutor in Rennes
The victim’s vehicle driven by the suspect was spotted and the man was arrested by the police the same day around 2 p.m.
The alleged attacker is already known to the judicial institution. The prosecutor indicates that “He has no mention on his criminal record but several proceedings are in progress.“.
At the end of the GAV, he will be brought before the public prosecutor this Saturday, June 29, with a view to opening a criminal judicial investigation.
