A forty-year-old man is suspected of trying to slit the throat of a prostitute in June 2022. The man, who has constantly denied his involvement, remains in pre-trial detention.
He faces life imprisonment because he is a repeat offender: he has been convicted several times, notably for rape in 2007 in Guadeloupe. The woman, seriously injured, was recognized as having an ITT (total incapacity for work) of more than three months by a psychiatrist. The trial “will highlight the fragile and dangerous situation of prostituted women in France’