The suspect was intoxicated and under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident.
The tragedy took place on November 22 in the toilets of the shopping center Atlantis, in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, report Ocean Press et Le Figaro. A 25-year-old young man with severe mental disabilitiesaccompanied his mother to go shopping. Around 3 p.m., he went to the toilet but did not come out.
Worry, his mother ended up going into the men's restroom. There she allegedly caught a man raping his sondescribed as naked and vulnerablenot seeming to understand what is happening to him. Alerted, the shopping center security agents immediately arrested the suspect, who they handed over to the police.
The scene was filmed by video surveillance cameras. An amateur video, showing extracts of the video surveillance images, was published on social networks.
ud83dudd34 A woman goes to the Atlantis shopping center in Nantes with her 25-year-old son, who has a significant mental disability. When her son asks to go to the bathroom, she goes with him and waits for him outside, because it is the men's bathroom. After several… pic.twitter.com/agXMUUXB9I
— Cpasdeslol (@cpasdeslol_X) https://twitter.com/cpasdeslol_X/status/1861371476546351270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Pregabalin, the “poor man’s drug”
While in police custody, the suspect admitted the facts while claiming that the victim had beenagreeable“with him. However, according to the public prosecutor of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul, the young disabled person is incapable of expressing any consent.
Analyzes revealed that the individual was drunk and under the influence of drugsincluding pregabalin, a substance nicknamed the “poor man’s drug”, often associated with violent behavior. It is a drug prescribed to treat epilepsy and neuropathic pain but misused as a narcotic for its disinhibiting and stimulating effects.
Presented last Sunday to an investigating judge and the judge of liberties, the suspect was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention at the Nantes remand center. If his precise identity is still being verified, the individual would be a 36-year-old Algerian, both homeless and undocumented, and therefore subject to an OQTF (obligation to leave French territory).
