A Paris firefighter, suspected of having raped a policewoman Sunday morning in the Yvelines, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, we learned on Friday from the Versailles prosecutor's office.
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The 39-year-old man, who has worked at the Paris Fire Brigade (BSPP) for 16 years, has been charged with rape, the same source said. He had been arrested at his workplace and taken into police custody on Wednesday.
The facts took place Sunday around 4:00 am. The victim, a police officer, born in 1981 as the suspect, was assaulted on the way home. She screamed and struggled, sources familiar with the matter said, but her attacker got her way. A witness saw the scene but the man managed to flee, detailed one of the sources. According to a source close to the investigation, it was thanks to the DNA left on the victim that the suspect, a father of two, was able to be identified by the investigators.
His DNA was taken in 2012 as part of a family abandonment procedure. When asked, the Paris firefighters said "to collaborate closely with the justice system to bring out the whole truth in this case", while recalling that it is "an individual act committed out of service". In May, a Norwegian student accused members of the Paris Fire Brigade by accusing them of rape in a barracks in the 14th arrondissement. The investigation had been closed by the courts.
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