Rape of rare violence in Cherbourg. The suspect targeted by another sexual assault investigation

We know a little more about the criminal record of the 18-year-old young man, indicted for the rape with torture of a woman of 29 years committed on August 4, 2023, in an apartment located in the city center of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche).

The man was unfavorably known to the police. It appears from his criminal record that he has been sentenced five times by the juvenile judge and the juvenile court for offenses against property and violence, the Coutances prosecution said on Monday August 2023 in a press release.

Convicted five times

” A child rape procedure initiated in 2019 was dismissed by the prosecution in 2020, on the grounds that the offense was not sufficiently characterized. “The facts would have occurred within a medicalized socio-educational boarding school.

In 2022, he also allegedly tried to sexually assault his 12-year-old little sister. “A sexual assault procedure against his sister is under investigation, without it being possible at this stage to determine whether or not these facts have been established”, specifies Dorothée Thoumyre, deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Coutances.

Summoned to a psychiatric expertise in the context of this case, the young man would not have gone there.

The vital prognosis of the victim still engaged Sunday August 13, 2023

Following the latest events of August 4, 2023, of rare violence that occurred at his home, the victim was plunged into an artificial coma after being operated for several hours.

Sunday August 13, 2023, his vital prognosis was still engaged. Naked and in a state of shock the victim, the young Cherbourgeoise had explained to the police that she had just been beaten and raped by a man “whom she had already seen but whom she did not know. »

The attacker had entered her home to hit her repeatedly, in the face and on the body, before raping her several times, in particular with a broomstick. It is a papillary trace left on a door as well as the geolocation of his smartphone at the time of the facts which made it possible to confuse the attacker.

Initiated by the Cherbourg public prosecutor’s office, the procedure was sent on Friday to the Coutances public prosecutor’s office, the investigation center, which opened a judicial investigation for rape accompanied by torture or acts of barbarism.

With AFP

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