Oumar N., 18, is suspected of having committed a rape with torture or acts of barbarism on a 29-year-old young woman in Cherbourg (Manche), on August 4. Photo provided to Figaro.
INVESTIGATION – This 18-year-old young man, already convicted five times by the courts, was known in his neighborhood for his numerous incivilities and violence against his mother.
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“He hit his mother. I found her several times on the ground at the bottom of her house, she said to me: ‘it was Oumar who shot me“says a resident of the neighborhood where Oumar N. lived with his mother. The first name of this 18-year-old young man, indicted for “rape accompanied by torture or acts of barbarism”, is on everyone’s lips in this working-class district south of Cherbourg where everyone knows each other.
“When his mother left for work, around 8:30-9 a.m., his friends would come home screaming. They even rang at the neighbors to go downstairs. They were sometimes twenty in his apartment“continues a neighbor. Idle, Oumar N. spent most of his time smoking hashish at the bottom of his building with his group of friends, says the neighborhood. Several residents also claim that he regularly urinated and defecated in the stairwell, much to the annoyance of the neighbors. But the latter, frightened, preferred to lower their eyes when…
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